Associations

Syndromes with extensive warts:

  • WHIM (Warts, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Infections, and Myelokathexis)

Autosomal dominant, primary immunodeficiency, mutations in gene encoding CXCR4 → impaired white blood cells trafficking/ homing → warts, hypo-gammaglobulinemia, bacterial infections, & myelokathexis

  • WILD: Warts, cellular immunodeficiency, 1° lymphedema, multifocal anogenital dysplasia
  • DOCK8 (autosomal recessive jobs)
  • Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
  • GATA2 deficiency
  • Idiopathic CD4 lymphopenia
  • Acquired HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus)

Verrucous carcinomas Low-grade well-differentiated variant of squamous cell carcinoma associated with HPV (16, 18), locally invasive/ destructive but rarely metastasize

  • Buschke Löwenstein

  • Oral florid papillomatosis
  • Epithelioma cuniculatum of sole
  • Papillomatosis cutis carcinoides

Treatment: surgical, no radiation (risk of anaplastic transformation)

Other treatment: chemotherapy, interferon