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X‐RAY THERAPY OF PLANTAR WARTS: A REVIEW AT SEVEN YEARS OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY‐ONE CASES. *
Author(s) -
JOHNSON ADRIAN
Publication year - 1953
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1953.tb01831.x
Subject(s) - medicine , plantar warts , repetition (rhetorical device) , radiation therapy , surgery , dermatology , cure rate , linguistics , philosophy
SUMMARY 1. Two hundred and twenty‐one plantar warts treated by X‐radiation at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1946 were reviewed in 1948, and again in 1953. 2. The cure rate under the age of twenty‐five years was 93%, and above that age, 52‐3%. 3. Lesions (some of which may not have been warts) on pressure areas gave bad results. 4. Ten of the 21 failures occurred in treating lesions that were at the time of review pure callosities. 5. Two of these failures are briefly considered, and indicate the importance of correct diagnosis and the dangers of repetition of treatment.