Randomised controlled trial of the treatment of warts in general practice.
- Conditions
- Common (not genital) warts
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 250
Inclusion Criteria
All patients from the age of 4 onward, who present themselves to their practice with one or more new warts of the type vulgaris on hands or feet will be included? New warts are warts who are presented for the first time in the general practice by patients who have had no general practice (or dermatological) treatment for warts in the past year. For all patients duration of presence of the warts and the previous
treatment(s) will be registered.
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria are: immuno-incompetent patients and mosaic warts larger than 1 cm in diameter.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome is defined as ‘cure', which means that the wart(s) have totally disappeared (normal skin) at 13 weeks.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method