Quantcast This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts. This image displays numerous flat warts on the forehead. Flat warts can be widely scattered across the face. This child has small, skin-colored flat warts at the cheek below the eye and on the nose.
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Flat Wart:
A parent's guide for infants and babies

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This image displays multiple skin-colored, barely raised lesions typical of flat warts.
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Signs and Symptoms
The most common locations for flat warts include:
  • Face, especially in children
  • Neck
  • Backs of hands
  • Arms 
  • Legs, especially in women who shave
  • Beard area, especially in men who shave
Flat warts are very slightly raised, smooth, skin-colored bumps ranging in size from 1–5 mm. 

Infection with flat warts can be graded as:
  • Mild – One or a few painless warts
  • Moderate – 10–100 lesions, which are painless
  • Severe – More than 100 lesions, which cause enough pain to limit normal life activities
Last Modified: 3 Mar 2008

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