Re: Wart Removal

[Dave Derenzo <dave@uic.edu>]

The following statement can be found on page 460-461 in the book "Medical 
Radiation Biology" written by Alexander Ellinger,  published in 1957.

"Warts may respond to ionizing radiation.  In the past, treatment of 
plantar warts with radium radiation has been performed.  While the 
immediate effects were satisfactory, the long range results were 
disappointing, leading occasionally to combination injury due to constant 
mechanical irritation of the irradiated area."

I have seen radium plaques designed for skin therapies.  One of our medical 
physicists thinks low energy Grenz rays were used for this type of 
treatment too.  Maybe the person can remember whether the treatment was 
delivered with a machine or a small rectangular plaque.



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