Successful treatment of periungual warts with local hyperthermia: report of two cases

Abstract

Periungual warts are common warts that grow on the periungual or nail margin, and it’s challenging to remove them due to their particular location, causing its high recurrence rate and brings difficulties to the treatments. We successfully cured two cases of stubborn periungual warts by local hyperthermia. A male with warts on his hands and knees and a girl with periungual warts on her fingers received local hyperthermia of 44 °C for 30 min a time. One month after the last treatment, their lesions disappeared entirely and did not relapse during the follow-up period. These two cases showed that local hyperthermia might be a safe and effective method for treating periungual warts in patients with poor traditional treatment.

Keywords:

• Case report
• hyperthermia
• therapeutics
• warts

Disclosure statement

The equipment for thermotherapy is a patent (Patent No.: US 8,246,668 B2) of the First Hospital of China Medical University, transferred to and manufactured by Liaoning Yanyang Medical Instrument Co.Ltd.