Treatment
Medical Care
No medical care is required.
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Surgical Care
Removal of the lesion by performing a punch biopsy or an excisional biopsy is an effective therapy for these benign lesions.
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Diet
This benign process is unrelated to dietary influences.
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Complications
The only complications associated with warty dyskeratoma (WD) are those associated with the minor surgical procedures required for the biopsy or the removal of these benign lesions.
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Media Gallery
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Absence of sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase 2 (SERCA2) staining by immunohistochemistry within a warty dyskeratoma (right side of image), in contrast to the unaffected epidermis (left side of image). Photomicrograph courtesy of James E. Fitzpatrick, MD.
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Warty dyskeratoma. An endo-exophytic squamous proliferation of cytologically benign, acantholytic, and dyskeratotic keratinocytes.
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Villi lined by acantholytic keratinocytes, some of which are dyskeratotic (corps ronds and corps grains).
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