Table 1.

Current clinical uses of organic acids

Specialty	Use and applied concentration	Acid used	References
Plastics/dermatology	Topical application in burn infections (2.5%)	Acetic acid	(Halstead et al., 2015)
Urology	Catheter and bladder irrigation solution to maintain patency (2–5%)	Citric acid	(Getliffe, 2012)
		–	–
		Acetic acid	(Doles et al., 2015)
Haematology/oncology/renal	Antibiotic Lock Technique in vascular catheter infections (5%)	Citric acid	(Grudzinski et al., 2015)
Gynaecology	Colposcopy examination of dyskaryotic cells in cervical cancer (N/A)	Acetic acid	(Sankaranarayanan et al., 1998)
Hepatology/oncology	Percutaenous injection for small hepatocellular carcinomas (2–4%)	Acetic acid	(Resistance and Usage, 2007)