http://mayfairfootclinic.com/blog Treating Milwaukees Feet for 15 years Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:02:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://mayfairfootclinic.com/blog/general/plantar-warts/ http://mayfairfootclinic.com/blog/general/plantar-warts/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:53:32 +0000 drchrismilkie http://mayfairfootclinic.com/blog/?p=70 Plantar warts are benign (non-cancerous) growths that occur on the sole (plantar surface), heel or ball of the foot. Pressure from standing and walking often causes them to grow into deep layers of the skin.
Plantar warts are caused by a virus called human papilloma virus (HPV).  There are over 100 different kinds of HPV. In some cases, the HPV virus dies with 1 or 2 years, the warts simply disappear. Other types of HPV viruses can survive for many years and even multiply. Since we cannot know which HPV virus a patient has, it is best to treat…

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