Plantar or Palmar Warts
The warts can also appear on the palm of the hands, or the soles of the foot. Unlike warts on other areas of the skin, warts on these pressure-bearing points can be painful. The responsible strains for lesions on this anatomical site are HPV1 and sometimes HPV2. Commonly targeting the population of school-going children and adolescents, this type of wart can occur as solitary lesions, or multiple warts may appear in a constellation, called the mosaic type. The symptoms of this type of warts are:
- Painful and tender blisters on the skin of the soles of foot or palms.
- Thickened and yellowish skin surrounding the wart, separating it from the normal skin. This sign can confuse a wart with a callus, which is a hardened skin tissue due to friction.
- The warts on the soles are usually flattened due to walking. In contrast, those on the palms are raised blisters.
- Black dots on the warts appear. This is actually the flakes of dried blood from the miniature vessels