When I once went to study for a year in Denmark to work in the anatomy Wart viruses and warts , verruca vulgaris. The classic periungual wart and of course this is the verruca plana on the leg. That s important. The filiform virus, the filiform wart, as you see here, showing this sticking out almost like a Molluscum contagiosum , and here this is a very different virus, which is very infectious and seems to especially hit the truncal areas. I use topical preparations like Retin-A lotion, benzyl peroxide to irritate them.
Some people use carbon dioxide lasers.
If I had an extensive lesion, a patient with many of these, I would probably send them to a dermatologist and let him earn the patient s eternal hatred for ripping them off. But there s no really good therapy to wipe them out. Acyclovir has been used in some of these, but again the results are not that clear with this disorder. Here again you have inflammatory versus non-inflammatory. You can see here the inflammatory leading to Here is a patient with classic tinea corporis with the clearing in the center.