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A plantar wart is a wart occurring on the bottom of the foot or toes. [5] Its color is typically similar to that of the skin. [2] Small black dots often occur on the surface. [5] One or more may occur in an area. [2] They may result in pain with pressure such that walking is difficult. [2] They are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). [2]
It is also known as "prosector's wart" because it was a common occupational disease of prosectors, the preparers of dissections and autopsies. Reinfection by tuberculosis via the skin, therefore, can result from accidental exposure to human tuberculous tissue in physicians , pathologists and laboratory workers; or to tissues of other infected ...
A seborrheic keratosis is a non-cancerous skin tumour that originates from cells, namely keratinocytes, in the outer layer of the skin called the epidermis.Like liver spots, seborrheic keratoses are seen more often as people age.
Common wart (verruca vulgaris), [8] a raised wart with a roughened surface, most common on hands, but can grow anywhere on the body. Sometimes known as a Palmer wart or Junior wart. Flat wart (verruca plana), a small, smooth flattened wart, flesh-coloured, which can occur in large numbers; most common on the face, neck, hands, wrists, and knees.
Flat warts, technically known as verruca plana, are reddish-brown or flesh-colored, slightly raised, flat-surfaced, well-demarcated papule of 2 to 5 mm in diameter. Upon close inspection, these lesions have a surface that is "finely verrucous".
Verruciform xanthoma is an uncommon benign [1] lesion that has a verruciform (wart-like) appearance, but it may appear polypoid, papillomatous, or sessile. [2]: 535 The verruciform was first described by Shafer in 1971 on the oral mucosa. [3]
The initial form of EV presents with only flat, wart-like lesions over the body, whereas the malignant form shows a higher rate of polymorphic skin lesions and development of multiple cutaneous tumors. [citation needed] Generally, cutaneous lesions are spread over the body, but some cases have only a few lesions which are limited to one extremity.
Lichen simplex chronicus (LSC) is thick leathery skin with exaggerated skin markings caused by sudden itching and excessive rubbing and scratching. [1] It generally results in small bumps, patches, scratch marks and scale. [1]