Papilloma on Finger Pictures - 69 Photos & Images
Why do warts on hands and fingers appear? What are the causes of them, how are they transmitted? Almost 20% of adolescents and children at least once had contact with warts among their environment and 10% of them face this disease at different ages. Infection with different types of papillomavirus is very easy given the presence of micro traumas on the skin:
- directly through direct contact of the affected skin with the healthy one;
- and by household way – through clothing, personal hygiene products, household items etc.
Common or vulgar warts
Most often, they appear on the fingers, palms, back of the hands, very rarely they are formed in the mucous membranes and face. It is the most common type of Verruca vulgaris, they cause up to 70% of all skin growths. They look like dense, rounded nodules of 0.3 to 1 cm in diameter, of different colors, in some cases they have the same color as the skin, and sometimes they can be pinker, yellowish, darker or light brown. By touch they are not smooth, not plain, but rough. Typically, development of the virus is manifested by multiple growths, when there is the largest parent wart and many smaller warts around. If you remove the parent wart, the rest can disappear by themselves.
