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Have A Painful Growth On Thumb. No Medication Till Now. What Should Be Done For This?

I have painful growth on my thumb with redness, I thought it was a wart like skin condition and bought a nightrogen freezing pack from the drug store, but was told not to treat if there is redness. What is it then? Prior buying the freezer, i tried to use a needle to remove excess top skin and hit some blood vessel twice on very surface of skin, bleeding a lot. So there definitely a very good blood supply to this thing!
Wed, 8 May 2013
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The condition ur suffering from is known as periungal warts or verruca which is bascially viral infection caused by human papiloma virus.it is contagious disease & spreads by auto inoculation to self & others in your intimate relation and needs dermatologist consultation ,as it wont be cured by houseold remedies.dermatologist may treat it with various modalities depending upon the size of lesion , larger ones may be given intralesional antimytotic agents to reduce its size folllowed by excision by radio -frequency , electrocaugolation , surgical excision along with oral immunomodulatorssmaller ones can be treated with topical antimytotic agentslike 5 fu but all thes is under strict dermatologist consultation .
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Have A Painful Growth On Thumb. No Medication Till Now. What Should Be Done For This?

The condition ur suffering from is known as periungal warts or verruca which is bascially viral infection caused by human papiloma virus.it is contagious disease & spreads by auto inoculation to self & others in your intimate relation and needs dermatologist consultation ,as it wont be cured by houseold remedies.dermatologist may treat it with various modalities depending upon the size of lesion , larger ones may be given intralesional antimytotic agents to reduce its size folllowed by excision by radio -frequency , electrocaugolation , surgical excision along with oral immunomodulatorssmaller ones can be treated with topical antimytotic agentslike 5 fu but all thes is under strict dermatologist consultation .