Giant Verruca Vulgaris on Scalp: A Case Report

Prilly Pricilya Theodorus, Novriyani Masuku, Hanny Tanasal

2019

Abstract

Verruca Vulgaris (VV) or also called Common warts is a skin conditions that forms verrucose papules as a result of skin and mucosa proliferations that caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Authors reported a case of Giant Verruca Vulgaris on scalp in 18 years old male teenager, the lesion located in the left parietal that continuously increasing in size within two weeks. Lesion has a cauliflower-like appearance with nummular shape as big as 4x4x0,5cm and grayish-brown colored with verrucous surface on it. Histopathology findings’ showed that the tissue perform a papillomatosis growth, epidermal hyperplasia, acanthosis, hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis, hypergranulosis with rough clod of keratohyaline, it also showed the upper epidermis has small core of coil cell, and hyperchromatic that surrounded by empty cytoplasm. The diagnose of VV were based on the clinical and histopathology findings. The selected treatment was electrocauterization (scar tissue presence after healing process).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Theodorus P., Masuku N. and Tanasal H. (2019). Giant Verruca Vulgaris on Scalp: A Case Report.In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease - Volume 1: ICTROMI, ISBN 978-989-758-469-5, pages 343-347. DOI: 10.5220/0009988303430347

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ictromi19,
author={Prilly Pricilya Theodorus and Novriyani Masuku and Hanny Tanasal},
title={Giant Verruca Vulgaris on Scalp: A Case Report},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease - Volume 1: ICTROMI,},
year={2019},
pages={343-347},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009988303430347},
isbn={978-989-758-469-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease - Volume 1: ICTROMI,
TI - Giant Verruca Vulgaris on Scalp: A Case Report
SN - 978-989-758-469-5
AU - Theodorus P.
AU - Masuku N.
AU - Tanasal H.
PY - 2019
SP - 343
EP - 347
DO - 10.5220/0009988303430347