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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about warts and death from warts.
Meaning of warts
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, warts:
(a)          means abnormal benign hyperplastic lesions of the skin or mucous membranes caused by human papillomavirus infection; and
(b)          includes:
(i)            flat warts, filiform or digitate warts;
(ii)         plantar warts (including mosaic); and
(iii)       anogenital warts (condyloma acuminatum); and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            seborrheic keratosis;
(ii)         skin cancers;
(iii)       keratoacanthoma;
(iv)        skin tags; and
(v)          papilloma of the bladder.
Note 1: Warts are usually protuberant or elevated lesions above the surface of the skin or mucous membranes except for plantar warts.
Note 2: Some examples of wart locations include hands, feet, nails, genitals, conjunctiva, nose, paranasal sinus, larynx, rectum, anal canal, cervix uteri, vagina, and urethra. Other names for warts are verruca or papilloma.
(3)          While warts attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes A63.0 and B07, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of warts is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from warts
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, warts, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's warts.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.