Table3: Cure rates in some previous studies on bleomycin in treating limb warts

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