Treatment of verruca plana with 5% 5-fluorouracil ointment.

11 patients with verruca plana were treated with 5% 5-Fluorouracil ointment as a twice daily topical application with open dressing. The patients were chosen among those who failed to be cured with avrious topical agents such as salicylic acid, vitamin A acid and dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB), or even with carbon dioxide cryotherapy, oral administration of methotrexate and intramuscular injection of sodium cacodylate. In 9 patients, all the treated warts completely disappeared within 3--5 weeks. 2 of these patients had recurrence after 3 weeks and 2 months, respectively. In 2 patients, some lesions disppeared while others failed to be healed. The major clinical adverse reactions were hyperpigmentation (8 cases), erythema (5 cases) and erosion (5 cases).