This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts. This image displays a severe case of flat warts on the hands, including dozens of white-appearing lesions. Flat warts are common on the face, arms, and legs and can be spread by scratching and shaving. This image displays flat warts in a beard area, which are typically spread by shaving. This image displays flat warts on the face, which can be skin-colored to slightly pink. Flat warts can appear pink or slightly red, as displayed in this image. Flat warts can appear pink and sometimes broad in shape, as displayed in this image. This image displays typical, multiple flat warts. This image displays dozens to hundreds of flat warts.
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Picture of Flat Wart: This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts. Divider line
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Treatments Your Physician May Prescribe
Once you have been diagnosed with flat warts, your physician may try one or more of the following treatments:
  • Freezing with liquid nitrogen (cryosurgery)
  • Burning with an electric needle (electrocautery)
  • Using a laser to disrupt the blood supply of the warts
  • Application of cantharidin, podophyllin, tretinoin, or salicylic acid
  • Injection with bleomycin, a chemotherapy drug, directly into the warts
  • Application of imiquimod, a cream that induces your immune system to destroy the wart
Last Modified: 3 Mar 2008

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