Dissemination of Flat Warts by Wire Brush Surgery

Development of Extensive Flat Warts after Pulsed Dye Laser Treatment of a Port-Wine Stain

“…For example, one case report describes the appearance of hundreds of flat warts in the area where dermabrasion had recently been performed. It was thought that the abrasion therapy had disseminated the virus 6 . There are also several reports of both common and flat warts inoculated during tattoo placement, 7–11 and common warts have also been described following thermal injury to the skin, induced by sunburn over the area of a tattoo, 12 following second‐degree burn, 4 and underneath watchbands which repeatedly slid up and down the forearm, abrading the underlying skin 13…”