Striving to be the most comprehensive online resource for high-quality pathology images

 

Verruca

prev  
slide 13 of 36
next
No Image
Verruca33.jpg

Close

Comments:
Common Warts (Verruca vulgaris): The upper layers of epidermis show large cells with vacuolated cytoplasm and pyknotic nuclei (koilocytosis). Koilocytes are more prominent in genital warts.

Koilocytosis is the result of a protein capable of disrupting cytokeratin network that is encoded by the early region E4 of HPV genome.

This image also shows basophilic keratohyalin granules.

prev
slide 13 of 36
next