Trials of topicals containing salicylic acid
Study	Interventions	Results	Outcomes
Abou‐Auda 1987	15% SA patch vs placebo patch	SA better than placebo	'Successful treatment' in 27/31 (87%) vs 11/23 (48%) at 12 weeks
Auken 1975	SA/LA vs 'conventional treatment' (anything else or no treatment)	No advantage of either approach	Cure in 43/84 (51%) vs 54/101 (54%) at 3 months
Bart 1989	SA vs placebo	SA better than placebo	Cure in 19/28 (68%) vs 7/25 (28%) at 12 weeks
Bruggink 2010	Cryotherapy vs SA vs 'wait and see'	Cryotherapy was the most effective treatment, especially for non‐plantar warts	Cure in 39%, 24%, and 16% in all warts and 49%, 15%, and 8% in all non‐plantar warts
Bunney 1971	SA vs collodion alone vs callusolve vs 50% podophyllin	No significant difference between any of the treatments. Lower cure rate for mosaic as opposed to simple plantar warts	Cure in 64/76 (84%) vs 50/76 (66%) vs 47/70 (67%) vs 60/74 (81%) at 12 weeks
Bunney 1976c	SA vs SA + polyoxyethylene	No difference	Cure in 55/71 (77%) vs 50/67 (75%) at 12 weeks
Bunney 1976d	10% glutaraldehyde vs SA	No difference	Cure in 18/38 (47%) vs 19/43 (44%) at 12 weeks
Bunney 1976e	40% SA vs ordinary SA/LA	No significant difference	Cure in 15/50 (30%) vs 17/43 (40%) at 12 weeks
Felt 1998	Anthralin vs SA/LA	Anthralin significantly better than conventional SA/LA	Cure in 15/27 (56%) vs 8/31 (26%) at 2 months
Flindt‐Hansen 1984	Anthralin vs SA/LA	Anthralin significantly better than conventional SA/LA	Cure in 15/27 (56%) vs 8/31 (26%) at 2 months
Parton 1994	Abrasion vs SA	Faster cure with abrasion	Mean time to cure of 2.1 weeks (2 to 4) vs 18.2 weeks (8 to 38). Itching in 93% of abrasion group. (100% cure rate with both treatments implied by text)
Spanos 1990	Hypnosis vs SA vs placebo vs no treatment	Hypnosis significantly better than all other 3 groups	'Loss of warts' in 6/10 (60%) vs 0/10 (0%) vs 1/10 (10%) vs 3/10 (30%) at 6 weeks
Steele 1988b	MCAA + SA vs placebo	MCAA/SA more effective than placebo	Cure in 19/29 (66%) vs 5/28 (18%) at 6 weeks
Veien 1991	SA/LA with vs without occlusion	No difference between the 2 groups. No advantage of occlusions	Cure in 48% and 47% at 17 weeks