1 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Adolescent Medicine, Tulane University Medical Center and Tulane Hospital for Children, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Molluscum contagiosum is described as an easily treated benign viral disease of the skin. Treatments detailed include cryosurgery and curettage-the treatments of choice-and podophyllotoxin and tretinoin. History and virology also are outlined.