Periungual wart is a kind of verruca vulgaris that occurs alongside or underlying the nails, which is challenging to treat and prone to recurrence, seriously affecting the quality of patients’ life. We report a 6-year-old boy with periungual warts who had experienced various treatments with no improvement and even worsening. Therefore, we tried to treat the patient with local hyperthermia which uses a patented device that has an infrared emission source. The heat generated by infrared rays acts on the local skin surface. The mechanism of this therapy may be to establish a specific immune response against human papillomavirus-infected tissues, thereby facilitating the clearance of human papillomavirus at irradiated and non-irradiated sites. Local hyperthermia has the advantages of non-contact, safety, noninvasive, less pain, and so on. After 5 treatments, the irradiated periungual warts completely cleared after 2 weeks. The unirradiated sites were almost cured after 7 weeks. This case suggests that local thermotherapy has shown great advantages in the treatment of these refractory periungual warts and offers a new and effective therapy in patients with periungual warts.
CITATION STYLE
Du, L., Cao, Z., Liu, Z., Zhu, X., & Zhang, C. (2022). Successful Treatment in a Child with Refractory Periungual Warts by Local Hyperthermia: A Case Report. Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, 15, 2617–2620. https://doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S390192
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.