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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:489-490.

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I recently read an article in the local paper concerning the "duct tape therapy for warts" study byFocht et al¹ and smiled very broadly. I and many of my dermatology colleagues have been using this type of painless, yet effective, therapy for several decades. It was championed by dermatologist Dr Jerome (Jerry) Litt² in a 1978 journal article, and he had been using it for years before that.

I will often recommend this benign therapy for small children, and will often resort to it in cases of therapy-resistant warts. It can be useful for warts around the fingernails and for large or multiple plantar warts, whether they've been treated previously or never treated. Surgery and other destructive therapies on the soles, toes, and fingers can be quite painful; moreover, the recurrence rates are significant with any of the therapies presently available. I've repeatedly found, over the years, that by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]