title: Intralesional pingyangmycin treatment for resistant plantar warts.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The diagnosis of viral warts is often straightforward, but their treatment is difficult and always takes a long time. Nowadays warts are usually treated with conventional methods including topical keratolytic agents, cryotherapy, electrosurgery and laser surgery. However, such treatments cause different complications, and the warts become recalcitrant.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the effect of intralesional pingyangmycin injection for resistant plantar warts.
  
  
  METHODS
  From June 2006 to September 2008, we treated 66 patients with plantar warts by intralesional pingyangmycin injection after informed consent.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The lesions of 58 patients cleared (87.88%) after up to 4 treatments. The remaining 8 patients (12.12%) achieved partial clearance. No serious side effects were observed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intralesional injection of pingyangmycin might be an effective, safe and generally well-tolerated treatment for plantar warts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Shenzhen Center for Chronic Diseases Control, Shenzhen, PR China. yangfan518020@163.com
authors.forename: Fan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiaolei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: Zhiying
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Shaofang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001761:Bleomycin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D002648:Child; D017679:Cryotherapy; D005260:Female; D005533:Foot Dermatoses / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D015552:Injections, Intralesional; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014860:Warts / Q000188:drug therapy*; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D001761:Bleomycin; C025703:bleomycetin