title: Identifying and treating plantar warts.
abstract: This article aims to help health practitioners to identify plantar warts, and to provide information on available treatments. The efficacy of various treatments is inconclusive. Topical treatments are recommended instead of other often costly and sometimes unsuccessful treatments such as cryotherapy. Improved education and self-management are encouraged to minimise spread of the virus and to ease discomfort.
authors.affiliation: Sutton and Merton NHS Primary Care Trust, Mitcham, Surrey. philip.watkins@smpct.nhs.uk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015984:Causality; D003452:Cryosurgery; D003475:Curettage; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D053685:Laser Therapy; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D020156:Salicylic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012648:Self Care; D014860:Warts / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy* / Q000635:transmission
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents; D020156:Salicylic Acid