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

• Avoid direct skin contact with a wart on someone else.
• After filing your wart, wash the file carefully since you can spread the virus to other parts of your body.
• After touching any of your warts, wash your hands carefully.

Warts, herpes simplex, and other viral infections. In: Habif TP, ed. Clinical Dermatology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 12.

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

Images

Warts, multiple - on hands

Wart (verruca) with a cutaneous horn on the toe

Wart (close-up)

Warts, flat on the cheek and neck

Wart

Plantar wart

Subungual wart

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Review Date: 12/11/2009
Reviewed By: Kevin Berman, MD, PhD, Atlanta Center for Dermatologic Disease, Atlanta, GA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

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