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Warts - Symptom

Alternative Names

Plane juvenile warts; Periungual warts; Subungual warts; Plantar warts; Verruca; Verrucae planae juveniles; Filiform warts; Verruca vulgaris

Symptoms:

Abnormally dark or light skin surrounding the lesion
Numerous small, smooth, flat (pinhead sized) lesions on forehead, cheeks, arms, or legs
Rough growths around or under fingernails or toenails
Rough, round, or oval lesions on soles of feet -- flat to slightly raised -- painful to pressure
Small, hard, flat or raised skin lesion or lump

Signs and tests:

Warts can generally be diagnosed simply by their location and appearance. Your doctor may want to cut into a wart (called a biopsy) to confirm that it is not a corn, callous, or other similar-appearing growth.

Warts, multiple - on hands

Warts, flat on the cheek and neck

Wart (verruca) with a cutaneous horn on the toe

Reviewed last on: 10/28/2008
Michael Lehrer, MD, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

References

US Food and Drug Administration. FDA Licenses New Vaccine for Prevention of Cervical Cancer and Other Diseases in Females Caused by Human Papillomavirus. Rockville, MD: National Press Office; June 8, 2006. P06-77.

Habif TP. Clinical Dermatology. 4th ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby; 2004:368-378.

Kasper D, Braunwald E, Fauci A, et al. Harrison's Principals of Internal Medicine. 16th edition [online version]. New York, NY: McGraw Hill; 2005.

Gibbs S, et al. Topical treatments for cutaneous warts. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006;(3):CD001781.

Habif, TP. Clinical Dermatology. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2004:chap 12.

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