Infectious lesions about the external genitals

Natural history of genital warts.

“…However, the infrequency of genital warts in dermatological, surgical, and gynae-I FIG. 15 Verruca vulgaris of the penis (A). Notice close morphological resemblance to common warts in cubital fossa of same patient (B) cological practice has been noted several times (Ebergenyi, 1939;Speiser, 1942); Rulison (1942) stated that the diagnosis of 'condyloma acuminatum' was made only 32 times in 250,000 patients who attended the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital between 1925 and 1934. On the other hand, genital warts are often seen in venereal disease clinics, so that the age of incidence recorded here is probably the true one, and the resemblance to gonorrhoea significant.…”