warts and lesions
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Warts and Other Lesions
Warts• Benign neoplasms caused by keratinocytes transformed by HPV• HPV type I, II and IV associated with plantar warts
– Type I causes verrucae plantaris lesions– Type II causes mosaic warts– Type IV causes seed corn lesions– Type III causes genital warts
• Physical factors such as infectious location, weight-bearing pressure
and moisture help determine the clinical appearance of the lesion
Warts• Due to immune system development, warts
are seen more commonly in children and less commonly in adults
• Can spread through small cuts in skin• May disappear spontaneously, often within
2 years of appearance• Diagnostic signs include pain with lateral
more than direct pressure and pinpoint bleeding with sharp dèbridement of the lesion
Note pinpoint spots representing thrombosed capillaries
Wart Treatments• Burning:
– Chemical: 40% Salicylic acid, mono, bi and tricholoroacetic acid, cantharidin
– Freezing: liquid nitrogen– Thermal: electrocautery,
pulsed-dye laser
• Tend to have the same things in common:– Painful– Multiple treatments needed– High rate of recurrence (40-
60%)
Wart Treatments• Surgical
– Sharp excholeation with blunt dissection of lesion
– Primary resection with sutured closure
– Intentional implantation to other extremity (Panacos graft)
– Bleomycin treatment
• Immune system modification– H2 blocker (Cimetidine) appears
to act by suppressing histamine. Histamine suppresses the immune system by activating suppressor T-cells. Low circulating levels of IgG and IgM are associated with a higher incidence of verrucae (45% of immunocompromised kidney recipients develop warts)
– Only Tagamet seems to have this effect
– 30mg/kg (adult) 20mg/kg (child) TID for 6-8 wks
Wart Treatments• Immune system stimulation
– Vitamin A (10K IU vit A) with 15μg of zinc BID
– Bleomycin injection (breaking the capsule of the wart, injecting Bleomycin to arrest the growth of the virus and allowing T cell development)
• Others:– Effudex cream (5-flurouracil)– Retin-A– Denavir (Pencyclovir)– Aldara cream (Imiquimod)
• Typical use is genital warts• Use 3X week with 8-10 hour
application time without occlusion
• Wash off completely• Use for 3 months• Dèbridement of the plantar
wart is essential as this has to be absorbed through the epidermis
Other Lesions• Porokeratosis plantaris discretum lesions (Steinberg’s lesion)
•Looks like a wart
•Is a blocked eccrine sweat gland
•Painful with direct pressure
Central core with no overlying bony prominence
Other Lesions•Intractable plantar keratosis
•Caused by pressure at the plantar metatarsal head
•Usually seen in conjunction with contracted digits and loss of the plantar fat pad
Large central core
Algorithm
Surgery(Bleomycin)(Panacos)(resection)
Burn(acid)
(electrocautery)(cryotherapy)
Other(Tagamet)(Effudex)(Aldara)
Wart
pinpoint bleeding
surgical excisionwith chemical cautery
PKP
small central corenot necessarily at aweight bearing area
elevational osteotomy
IPK
large core atweight-bearing area
Lesionis debrided
What if it returns?• Current success rate with the Bleomycin treatment is 95+%• Those who fail the Bleomycin treatment are placed upon Aldara cream
with 1 failure so far in 12 cases• The person who failed on the Aldara cream had primary surgical
excision with no return of lesion• 16 current cases of the Panacos graft for mosaic warts with 2 failures,
who then responded to the Bleomycin treatment
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