Nasza Dermatologia Online (Jul 2014)

An interesting case of giant molluscum with florid verruca vulgaris in an immunocompetent patient

  • Iffat Hassan,
  • Parvaiz Anwar Rather,
  • Safiya Bashir,
  • Atiya Yaseen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7241/ourd.20143.70
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 282 – 284

Abstract

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Molluscum contagiosum and warts are two fairly common skin infections caused by DNA viruses i.e. poxvirus and human papilloma virus (HPV) respectively. Both the conditions are benign and mostly self-limited. However in immunocompromised individuals, these infections can have varied atypical presentations like larger, more extensive, recalcitrant and refractory lesions. These atypical presentations in a non-immunocompromised individual are, however, quite rare. We present one such case with atypical presentation of molluscum contagiosum and warts (verruca vulgaris).

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