WARTS – GENERAL INFORMATION
Extreme cold from carbon dioxide, snow or liquid nitrogen will also result in death of the warty tissue, which sloughs away and the underlying skin heals usually without a scar.
Warts near the nailbed are prone to come back.
Plantar warts are often called papillomas and these are warts on the soles of the feet.
They are the same as warts elsewhere but because of the pressure of the foot against the ground or the shoe, the warty tissue is forced inwards and this presses on the sensitive nerve endings in the skin and causes pain.
The warts can be softened by using a local application and the base curetted away.
They do respond well to freezing with liquid nitrogen.
Plantar warts are usually multiple. Venereal warts or condyloma acuminata are the same as the others.
Their difference being that the warm moist conditions of the genital or anal areas produces a different type of wart.
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