Table 2. Summary of treatment outcomes

Treatment

Total Regression (including those with residual scarring)

Effective, but disease tends to eventually progress or recur

Not Effective

Topical Corticosteroid

Jones, Khan, 

van de Kerkhof,

 

 

 

Owings, Palmer, White, Roman

Intralesional Corticosteroid

Baughman

 

 

White

Systemic Corticosteroid

 

 

 Ferreiro

 

Combined Topical and Intralesional Corticosteroids

Kaur

 

 

Combined Topical and Systemic Corticosteroids

Timms (1988),

Timms (1991)

Timms (1988)

 

Topical Nystatin

 

Silverman

Palmer, White

Oral Nystatin

 

 

Palmer, White

Antibiotics (unspecified)

 

 

Ferreiro

Oral griseofulvin

Tamaki

 

 

2% Fusidic acid

 

Mahler

Roman, van der Kerkhof

Systemic chemotherapy

 

Fogarty

 

Low dose radiation therapy

 

Fogarty

 

Surgical excision, CO2 laser, electrocoagulation, cryotherapy

Roman

Ferreiro, Fogarty, Timms (1991), White

 

Tracheostomy

 

Ferrerio, Fogarty