What Is Papilloma?
9. Complications
As mentioned, papillomas can sometimes grow large enough to cause obstructions that make it harder for the patient to breathe. In addition, scratching at a papilloma can cause the skin to become broken, and this will result in an infection in some cases. Such infections should be fairly easy to treat provided treatment starts in time.
While papillomas are not usually cancerous, they can turn cancerous in a very small number of cases. What is more is that the presence of certain papillomas can also mean the patient is more likely to develop a cancer. Such patients should go in for check-ups regularly in order to catch any cancers early should they occur.
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