This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on Web of Science (2)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

New Facies of an Old Foe: A Clinical Perspective

Mitchell E. Bender, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1994;130(11):1429-1430.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

CUTANEOUS WARTS are one of the most common maladies treated by the clinical dermatologist. Although all types of warts represent a therapeutic challenge, plantar warts remain a particular vexation. Often unresponsive to therapy, a variety of therapeutic techniques have been used to assault this often implacable foe. Clinicians, after decades of observation, have classified plantar warts into a variety of types: deep (myrmecia), common, mosaic, and endophytic. Molecular studies have revealed that different clinical varieties of warts are associated with specific human papillomavirus (HPV) types. The following HPV types are associated with their respective clinical entities: HPV-1 with deep plantar warts, HPV-2 and HPV-4 with common and mosaic warts, and HPV-4 with endophytic warts.¹ More recently, two new HPV types have been associated with plantar warts: HPV-65 which has been associated with a pigmented verrucous plantar wart, and HPV-63 which has been associated with whitish, punctate, keratotic warts showing . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Department of Dermatology University of Minnesota Medical School Minneapolis, MN 55455

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?