Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2005

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This article is the authors' final version prior to publication in SKINmed, Volume 4, Issue 6, November/December 2005, Pages 333-335.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-9740.2005.04488.x. Copyright © Wiley

This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

Abstract

Growing older may mean more wrinkles and creaking joints, but why does it also entail an accumulation of barnacles. These brown, somewhat friable, often warty lesions are more common on senior citizens but are not necessarily limited to the chronologically challenged. Seborrheic keratoses (SKs) can be easily recognized (fig 1), but the itching and the occasional scratch-induced dermatitis make them more than a cosmetic nuisance. (fig 2)

SKs can go by a variety of names, ranging from basal cell papillomas, senile warts, and senile keratoses to seborrheic verrucae and verrucous senilis. The various terms provide no more information on their natural history or the etiology of these benign lesions, other than that age is somehow associated. (1)

PubMed ID

16276146

Language

English

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