This image displays skin-colored, flat bumps typical of flat warts. This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts. This image displays typical, multiple flat warts. Numerous skin colored flat warts are seen here on the forehead. In people with darker skin, flat warts can look lighter in color than normal skin. The linear arrangement of flat warts on the left side of the picture illustrates how a scratch can spread the infection. Flat warts are not as raised as common warts; when they are numerous, as on the chin of this child, they can simulate a rash. In lighter skinned people, flat warts are pink in color. The straight line of warts displays the spread of the virus from a scratch. Flat warts can be widely scattered across the face. Flat warts may be difficult to see in darker skin and often have a lighter color than normal skin.
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Flat Wart:
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Treatments Your Physician May Prescribe
Once your child has been diagnosed with flat warts, the 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 warts
Last Modified: 3 Mar 2008

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