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Warts and verrucae - Management
Basis for recommendation
No treatment
- The recommendation for no treatment is taken from guidelines published by the British Association of Dermatology and is based on expert opinion [Sterling et al, 2001].
Spontaneous resolution
- A cohort study (n = 1000) conducted in children found evidence that two-thirds of warts resolve spontaneously within 2 years [Massing and Epstein, 1963].
- A Cochrane systematic review pooled data from 21 trials and found evidence that the average cure rate for people receiving placebo was 27% (95% CI 0 to 73) after an average of 15 weeks [Gibbs and Harvey, 2006].
Warts that persist
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