What should I do if the glans penis is enlarged and has a small lump?

The glans is the most sensitive and special part. Because it is very special, people often protect it carefully. However, they did not expect that one day when taking a bath, they would find many small particles on the glans. This kind is most likely to be biological, mostly from infection with condyloma acuminatum. After the onset of the disease, it is often confused with other diseases, which can easily lead to misdiagnosis.

What are the condyloma acuminatum in special areas?

Answer: There are quite a few patients with condyloma acuminatum around the anus, in the anal canal, and in the rectum in the dermatology department’s STD clinic. Many of them are infected through homosexual anal intercourse, some are infected through heterosexual anal intercourse in pursuit of diversity in their sexual lifestyle, and some are infected through self-inoculation of the hands or contaminated washing utensils.

Condyloma acuminatum around the anus often grows larger and looks like cauliflower, with a moist surface or bleeding, and can emit a foul odor. Scratching can cause secondary infection. Condyloma acuminatum inside the anus or rectum can cause pain and blood in the stool, while large condyloma acuminatum inside the rectum can cause a feeling of tenesmus. Foreign reports have shown that long-term untreated condyloma acuminatum inside the rectum may develop into intestinal cancer.

7. What disease is most likely to be confused with male genital warts?

Answer: Pearly papules of the penis

8. What disease is most likely to be confused with female genital warts?

Answer: Pseudo-warts

9. Who is most likely to develop genital warts?

Answer: This disease is more common in sexually active people with unclean sex lives, mostly in the age group of 20 to 40 years old.

10. Are condyloma acuminatums contracted through unclean sexual life?

Answer: 70% of people infected with condyloma acuminatum are infected through sexual contact, while the remaining 30% are infected through non-sexual contact, such as 1. contact with objects 2. medical transmission 3. smoke transmission 4. mother-to-child transmission 5. self-inoculation transmission, etc.

11. How long is the incubation period of genital warts?

A: It takes a while for HPV to infect the skin and mucous membranes before condyloma acuminatum damage appears. This period of time is called the latent period of condyloma acuminatum. The length of the latent period of condyloma acuminatum varies from person to person, generally ranging from 2 weeks to 10 months, with an average of 3 months. Some cases can be as long as 12 months.

12. Can condyloma acuminatum heal on its own without treatment?

Answer: Foreign scholars have speculated that 1/3 of newly diagnosed genital warts can disappear on their own within 6 months, while 2/3 of the warts will not disappear and will further develop. However, in actual clinical observation, spontaneous disappearance is extremely rare, and because they grow in the genital area, patients have an urgent desire for treatment.

13. Will people develop genital warts after being infected with HPV?

Answer: Not necessarily, because in addition to genital warts, there are many other diseases caused by HPV infection, such as flat warts, plantar warts, common warts, borrelioid papulosis, cervical cancer, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, penile intraepithelial neoplasia, perianal intraepithelial neoplasia, skin squamous cell carcinoma, and epidermal dysplasia verruciformis.