Types of Warts

• Common wart (Verruca vulgaris),a raised wart with roughened surface, most common on hands, but can grow anywhere on the body.
• Flat wart (Verruca plana), a small, smooth flattened wart, flesh‐colored, which can occur in large numbers; most common on the face, neck, hands, wrists and knees.
• Filiform or digitate wart, a thread‐ or finger‐like wart, most common Filiform or digitate wart, a thread‐ or finger‐like wart, most common on the face, especially near the eyelids and lips.
• Genital wart (venereal wart, Condyloma acuminatum, Verruca acuminata), a wart that occurs on the genitalia.
• Mosaic wart, a group of tightly clustered plantar­type warts, commonly on the hands or soles of the feet.
• Periungual wart, a cauliflower‐like cluster of warts that occurs around the nails.
• Plantar wart (verruca, Verruca pedis), a hard sometimes painful lump, often with multiple black specks in the center; usually only found on pressure points on the soles of the feet.

Causes

• People get warts from using towels or other objects that were used by a person who has warts.
• If a wart is scratched, the viral spots may be spread to another area of skin.
• Warts on the skin may be passed to another person when that person touches the warts.

Treatment

The treatment depends on the type of wart. The common treatments are abrasion, cautery with acids and cryo‐treatment.