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  • Parent’s or child’s desire for office-based treatment.

Absolute

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  • Molluscum in facial, genital, or perianal area.

Relative

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  • Previous cantharidin application with severe blistering.

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  • Cantharidin 0.9% in flexible collodion.

  
  

  • Blunt-ended wooden applicator.

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  • Pain.

  
  

  • Blistering.

  
  

  • Secondary infection.

  
  

  • Temporary hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation.