Plantar warts

Plantar warts are often mistaken for corns or calluses. To make the distinction, look for: ...
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Plantar Warts
The foot is a highly mechanical apparatus, and it carries the entire weight of the body when we stand, walk, and run.
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Plantar warts can occur when HPV invades the body through tiny cuts or breaks in the skin on the bottom of the feet. The virus often is encountered on contaminated surfaces, such as the tile floors of public locker rooms, showers, and swimming pools.
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Plantar Warts
What is a plantar wart?
The plantar surface of your foot is the sole of your foot. A wart that grows into the sole of your foot is called a plantar wart.
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Alternate Names
: Filiform Warts, Periungual Warts, Plane Juvenile Warts, Plantar Warts, Subungual Warts, Verruca, Verruca Vulgaris, Verrucae Planae Juveniles
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Plantar warts appear on the bottom (sole) of the foot. They are flattened by the pressure of standing on them and can be dotted with tiny, clotted blood vessels that look like dark pinpoints.
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Plantar warts, which are similar to common warts, develop on the sole of the foot and are flat rather than raised because of the pressure from weight.
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2 - Plantar warts are verruca on the sole of the foot. Both types of verruca are actually benign epithelial tumors, caused by a virus.
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(HPV), any of a family of more than 60 viruses that cause various growths, including plantar warts and genital warts, a sexually transmitted disease. Detectable warts can be or removed, usually by chemicals, freezing, or laser, but often recur.
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foot warts - located on the soles of feet (plantar warts) with black dots (clotted blood vessels that once fed them); clusters of plantar warts are called mosaic. These warts may be painful.
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Surgery to warts on the sole of the foot (plantar warts) may leave scar tissue that causes as much pressure or pain as the original wart. In such cases the symptoms will be permanent from the scar but often temporary if the wart is left alone.
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Common warts tend to cause no discomfort unless they are in areas of repeated friction or pressure. Plantar warts, for example, can become extremely painful. Large numbers of plantar warts on the foot may cause difficulty running and even walking.
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Plantar warts, known as verrucas. These are warts on the soles of the feet that have been pushed into the skin surface by the weight of the body.
Plane warts. These are smaller and lie flatter in the skin mostly on the hands or face.
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Foot warts. Also known as plantar warts, they appear on the soles of the feet at pressure points (such as the balls and heels of the feet).
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Warts are often classified by their location rather than by the specific type of virus that causes the lesion. Warts around the fingernails, like your son has, are called periungual. Those on the bottom of the feet are plantar warts.
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