What is it about?
Some warts, especially plantar warts, are very resistant to well-known therapies such as cryosurgery, electrocautery, and topical destructive chemical agents. Immunotherapy with intralesional tuberculin; measles, mumps, rubella vaccine; and Candida albicans antigen have been used successfully in the treatment of warts. Vitamin D has immunomodulatory properties, it is available and cheap as well. Intralesional vitamin D has never been used in the treatment of warts in the past. We applied intralesional vitamin D into the recalcitrant plantar lesions of 20 patients with warts and reached 80% clearance rate after 2 months.
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Why is it important?
Because it provides a new, cheap, easy-to-apply and effective treatment option for the patients with warts.
Perspectives
I am looking forward to hear the treatment outcomes of similar studies.
Dr Can Ergin
Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Education and Research Hospital, Clinic of Dermatology and Venerology
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This page is a summary of: Intralesional Vitamin D Injection May Be an Effective Treatment Option for Warts, Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, August 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1203475415602841.
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