title: One stone, two birds: managing multiple common warts on hands and face by local hyperthermia.
abstract: A man developed with multiple warts on his hands and the inner canthus of his left eye. We applied local hyperthermia on a single target lesion on his hand at a surface temperature of 44 °C for 30 minutes on Days 1, 2, 3, 17, and 18. All the lesions treated with or without heat cleared 8 weeks after the last treatment. Treatment of a target lesion resolved all other untreated lesions, a fact suggestive that local hyperthermia could induce activation of specific immunity against human papillomavirus on the lesional skin, which lead to resolution of all the warts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, No.1 Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China.
authors.forename: Lanting
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Ruiqun
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Yuxiao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huo
authors.forename: Hong-Duo
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xing-Hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Gao
mesh_terms: D005148:Facial Dermatoses / Q000628:therapy* / Q000821:virology; D006229:Hand Dermatoses / Q000628:therapy* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D014860:Warts / Q000628:therapy* / Q000821:virology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: human papillomavirus; hyperthermia; multiple common warts