Warts

Alternative names:

filiform warts; periungual warts; plane juvenile warts; plantar warts; subungual warts; verruca; verruca vulgaris; verrucae planae juveniles

Symptoms:

• small, hard flat to raised skin lesion or lump
  • skin colored, lighter or darker than surrounding skin, dark speckles, black
  • skin abnormally dark or light may occur in a small area

• numerous small, smooth, flat (pinhead sized) lesions on forehead, cheeks, arms, or legs
• rough round or oval lesions on soles of feet, flat to slightly raised and painful to pressure
• rough growths around fingernails or toenails or protruding from beneath them

Signs and tests:

The diagnosis is based on the appearance of the skin lump.