Cryotherapy did not differ in efficacy from other treatments for anogenital warts, and could be used as first-line therapy, according to recently published study results in the Journal of the ...

Cryotherapy remains a go-to treatment for warts. In this procedure, a healthcare professional applies liquid nitrogen to the wart, effectively freezing it off.

Among patients with predominantly common warts, warts were significantly more likely to resolve completely with cryotherapy than with salicylic acid or no treatment (49% vs. 15% and 8%, respectively).

"Cryotherapy is widely used for the treatment of cutaneous warts in primary care," write Sjoerd C. Bruggink, MD, from Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, and colleagues.

Compared with cryotherapy, complete remission was observed with fewer immunotherapy sessions (2.17 ± 0.65 versus 3.82 ± 2.481), but there was no statistically significant difference between the ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD When a wart is treated, the skin goes through several stages of the wart falling off. First-line wart treatments help the wart fall off by slowly killing ...

However, studies have not confirmed the effectiveness of this home remedy. A 2020 study published in Dermatologic Therapy showed that traditional cryotherapy, or freezing, in a dermatologist’s ...

Reference Khozeimeh F, Azad FJ, Oskouei YM, et al. Intralesional immunotherapy compared to cryotherapy in the treatment of warts. Int J Dermatol. 2017. doi:10.1111/ijd.13535 ...

Warts are usually harmless, but they can certainly be an eyesore. Over time, warts usually go away by themselves. However, if you do choose to seek treatment, we’ve got you covered.

Plantar warts are found on the soles, or plantar area, of feet. Walking pushes plantar warts back into the skin. They can be painful. When they grow in clusters, they are known as mosaic warts.