Table3: Cure rates in some previous studies on bleomycin in treating limb warts |
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Authors |
Cure rate |
Further information |
Agius |
89.9% |
Intralesional bleomycin for 47 patients with 138 plantar warts resistant to cryotherapy. |
Amer et al |
67.8% |
injected intralesionally in 38 patients & 143 warts |
Bunney et al |
76% |
Carried out on 59 matched pairs of hand warts in 24 patients, compared with a normal saline placebo injected into the paired warts in the same patient. |
Munn et al |
92% |
Bleomycin solution was dropped on to the wart and 'pricked' into the wart. |
shelly |
92% |
Multiple puncture technique using a bifurcated vaccination needle to introduce bleomycin into 258 warts in 66 patients |
Hayes and O'Keefe |
76% |
More dilute concentrations of bleomycin injected in 62 warts of 26 patients |
Sbtebins et al |
82% |
Intralesional bleomycin in 33 patients |