Human papillomavirus differential diagnosis
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Aysha Anwar, M.B.B.S[2]
Overview
HPV infection must be differentiated from other diseases that causes warty lesions, pruritis, postcoital spotting or vaginal discharge, vaginal bleeding, painful sexual intercourse, respiratory distress
Differential diagnosis
HPV infection must be differentiated from other diseases that causes warty lesions, pruritis, postcoital spotting or vaginal discharge, vaginal bleeding, painful sexual intercourse, respiratory distress and stridor in infants:[1][2][3]
- Condylomata lata[1]
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Seborrheic keratosis
- Lichen planus
- Fibroepithelial polyp, adenoma
- Melanocytic nevus
- Neoplastic lesions
- Pink pearly penile papules
- Vestibular papillae (micropapillomatosis labialis)
- Skin tags (acrochordons)
- Squamous cell carcinoma in situ
- Bowenoid papulosis
- Erythroplasia of Queyrat
- Bowen’s disease of the genitalia
- Benign Cervical Lesions
- Benign Vulvar Lesions
- Head and Neck Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Deshpande DJ, Nayak CS, Mishra SN, Dhurat RS (2009). “Verrucous condyloma lata mimicking condyloma acuminata: An unusual presentation”. Indian J Sex Transm Dis. 30 (2): 100–2. doi:10.4103/0253-7184.62766. PMC 3168050. PMID 21938129.
- ↑ Tayal S, Shaban F, Dasgupta K, Tabaqchali MA (2015). “A case of syphilitic anal condylomata lata mimicking malignancy”. Int J Surg Case Rep. 17: 69–71. doi:10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.10.035. PMC 4701813. PMID 26555060.
- ↑ Wiley DJ, Douglas J, Beutner K, Cox T, Fife K, Moscicki AB; et al. (2002). “External genital warts: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention”. Clin Infect Dis. 35 (Suppl 2): S210–24. doi:10.1086/342109. PMID 12353208.
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