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INFECTIOUS WARTS

A keratotic papilloma of the epidermis which occurs most frequently in young persons as a result of localised infection by human papilloma virus, generally types 2 and 4; the lesions are of variable duration, eventually undergoing spontaneous regression, and are both exophytic and endophytic, with hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, hypergranulosis, koilocytosis, and papillomatosis. Synonym: general wart, infectious warts, verruca simplex, viral wart.
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