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Topical urea and bifonazole therapy was available in the past as well as systemic antimycotic therapy with just griseofulvin or ketoconazole. Nowadays a different spectrum of easily applicable, safe and effective therapeutic measures is on the physician's hands. Besides topical therapy with ciclopirox and amorolfine oral treatment with itraconazole, terbinafine and fluconazole is available. Combination therapy of terbinafine orally in addition with topical application of ciclopirox may possibly optimize the therapeutic approach considering the respective response rates however, no clinical study evaluating this hypothesis has been performed so far.

Our data suggest that a ciclopirox lacquer may be helpful in the treatment of common warts. However, the data have to be confirmed in a randomized controlled trial in the future.