Socio-demographics and wart-characteristics
verruca plana, wart, verruca plantaris
WART, VERRUCA PLANTARIS, WARTS, VERRUCA VULGARIS, VERRUCA FILIFORMIS, VERRUCA PLANA
Figure (Distribution of patient- and wart-specific characteristics among the study population.All subjects are represented in Fig. Number of warts per age group in the male and female population. Each study participant is depicted by a colored dot. Male patients are shown in blue, female patients in red. The number of patients per age group was respectively: 33 [≤ 15], 46 [16–25], 35 [26–35], 55 [36–45], 39 [46–55], 37 [56–65], and 24 [≥ 66]. The median number of warts per each age group is depicted by a colored line, with the highest median number of warts (13.5) found among patients aged ≤ 15 years. The highest number of warts per patient was found in age group ≤ 15 years and equaled to 54 warts in total.Considering the location of index warts, 85 (31.6%) were located on the hands, while 176 (65.4%) were located on the feet. Regarding index wart type, 89 (33.1%) of the index warts were verruca vulgaris, 113 (42.0%) were verruca plantaris mosaic, 60 (22.3%) were verruca plantaris simple, 6 (2.2%) were verruca plana and 1 (0.4%) was verruca filiformis. The average index wart size was 9 mm. Data showed that 263 (97.8%) of the index warts were older than 6 months and 247 (91.8%) were already subjected to prior treatment, indicating enrichment of the study population with highly persistent warts. 