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Q Is duct tape effective for treatment of common warts (verrucae vulgaris) in adults?
METHODS
Design:
randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
concealed.
Blinding:
blinded (patients and investigators).
Follow-up period:
2 months.
Setting:
a Veterans Affairs medical centre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Patients:
90 patients >18 years of age (mean age 54 y, 72% men) with ⩾1 common wart (diameter 2–15 mm). Exclusion criteria were pregnancy or lactation, treatment of the target wart in the past 4 weeks, immunodeficiency, genital wart only, and hypersensitivity or allergy to adhesive tape or latex.
Intervention:
duct tape (Scotch Transparent Duct Tape, 3M, St Paul, MN, USA), applied to the adhesive side of moleskin pads (Dr Scholl’s Moleskin Plus, Schering-Plough HealthCare Products, Memphis, TN, USA) (n = 44) or …
Footnotes
For correspondence: Dr R Wenner, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA. wenn0032{at}umn.edu
Source of funding: Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
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