The Wondrous World of Parasites - Beware icky pix! (metal, albums)

Guybrush · 05-04-2009, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction

I could be wrong, but I was going off of this:
(sourced from the wiki article)
"On August 26, 2008, MSNBC reported that Dede had returned home following surgery to remove thirteen pounds (5.8 kilo) of warts from his body.[13] In all, 95% of the warts were removed. [13] The surgery was documented by the Discovery Channel and TLC in the episode "Treeman: Search for the Cure."

Hehe, sorry about all the nitpicking

What you have there is a quote from MSNBC, though. The article itself says that :

"Clinical diagnostic features are lifelong eruption of pityriasis versicolor-like macules, flat wart-like papules and development of cutaneous carcinomas. Patients present with flat, slightly scaly, red-brown macules on the face, neck and body, or verruca-like papillomatous lesions, seborrheic keratosis-like lesions, and pinkish-red plane papules on the hands, upper and lower extremities, and face. The benign form of EV presents with only flat, wart-like lesions over the body, whereas the malignant form shows a higher rate of polymorphic skin lesions and development of multiple cutaneous tumors."

In other words, it describes it as wart-like papules and so on. "Real" warts are caused by viruses, but Dede's condition was caused by something else.