Ying Zhang, Jing-Si Jiang, Le Kuai, Yue Luo, Jia-Le Chen, Yan-Jiao Wang, Rong Xu, Meng Xing, Liu Liu, Xin Li, Bin Li
Flat warts are a common and recurrent skin disease that has no specific antiviral treatment. As an alternative or complementary therapy, fire needle therapy has been widely used in the treatment of flat warts. The objective of this study was to systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of fire needle therapy for flat warts. Using the search terms "flat warts" and "fire needle," we searched the PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform, Chinese biomedical (SinoMed) database, and the China Science and Technology Journal databases for studies until March 12, 2020...
2021: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: ECAM