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| curiousgeorge
- Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:42 am |
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i have a blister looking bump on my middle toe on my foot. However it is not easy to pop or soft like a blister. It's about the size of a normal pimple/blister and feels neither soft nor very hard, but it does feel a bit stiffer than regular skin but i think thats because regular skin is a more smooth surface and this is a bump.... When I scratch and and pick at the excess skin it just seems like excess skin as theres nothing underneath it. No pus/water... However it grows back to its original size and I don't believe it has grown since I first discovered it. There is also another one right by it but not exactly next to it. It is a lot smaller and hardly noticable unless felt with a finger tip. Both have been there for aslong as I can remember and I don't believe any new ones have formed.
Also this isn't on the toe nail but on the opposite side. It also doesn't cause me any pain either.
Could this be a tumor? If not what is it?
It doesn't appear to be a pimple or blister. And it doesn't look like a wart or mole. It looks like normal healthy skin just it bumps up.
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| Dr. Anthony Solomon
- Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:49 am |
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Please provide close-up views so that we can advise you on the possibilities.
It is impossible to arrive at a diagnosis without an examination of the lesion. From your description, the lesion is suggestive of a flat wart, also known as verruca plana, but you are confident it is not a wart. Flat warts present as pink, flesh-colored, flat-topped papules on the skin.
Why have you not obtained the opinion of your primary care physician or a dermatogist if the lesion has been there for a long time?
Dr Anthony Solomon
Consultant Physician, Tropical & Genitourinary Medicine
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