What are the symptoms of HPV virus?

HPV virus actually has sexually transmitted diseases and other skin diseases, and the main symptoms are also prominent on the skin. We must pay attention to the HPV virus because it is highly contagious and can be transmitted through objects or sexual intercourse. Everyone must pay attention to hygiene in their lives. HPV-infected people generally have symptoms such as skin keratinization, external genital diseases, small warts on the neck, etc. Patients may also feel pain or itching in the affected area, so patients can usually discover the disease in time. Regarding HPV, knowing more about it will be very helpful in preventing this disease, and you can also understand its symptoms.

Symptoms of HPV infection

Low-risk HPV infection

1. Benign skin manifestations

(1) Common warts: Papules the size of rice grains, with obvious keratinization on the surface, rough and uneven, thorn-like tips, and hard texture. The lesions may be single or multiple, and may gradually increase in number through self-inoculation. Mostly occurs in the hands, feet, etc.

(2) Diseases manifesting in special parts of the body:

Periungual warts: occur around the fingernails and toenails, and are characterized by thickening and keratinization under the nail.

Plantar warts: occur on the soles of the feet, and bleeding spots and black spots can be seen on the surface of the lesions due to pressure.

Filiform warts: multiple, soft, thread-like warts that occur on the neck and eyelids

Flat warts: They mostly occur on the face and are also common on the trunk. They are mostly flat papules 2-5mm in size, skin color or light brown, with a smooth surface, and are round or quasi-round. They are occasionally scratched due to itching, forming autoinoculation, or implanted along the surface of skin damage.

2. Benign manifestations of external genital diseases

(1) Genital warts (condyloma acuminatum): There are three states: typical manifestations, subclinical infection, and latent infection.

(a) Typical manifestations: Typical skin lesions visible to the naked eye: papilloma-like, cauliflower-like, granular, cockscomb-like, etc.

(b) Subclinical manifestations are difficult to identify with the naked eye and can only be observed with the help of a magnifying glass or acetowhite test. Histological and cytological tests show typical HPV pathological changes;

(c) Latent infection is when HPV enters the cells of the skin and mucous membranes and does not cause any clinical manifestations or histological abnormalities, but can be detected in the cells of the skin and mucous membranes through molecular biological methods, nucleic acid hybridization, etc.

Prone areas: Female vulva, vagina, cervix, around the anus, inside the anal canal, and urethral opening; male vulva, penis, testicular surface, urethral opening, around the anus, inside the anal canal, etc.

Rare locations: armpits, navel, between toes, under breasts, etc.

(2) Special areas: wart-like lesions on the surface of the oral mucosa, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, etc.

High-risk HPV infection

1. Skin manifestations

There is information showing that epithelial tumors of the skin, such as Bowen's disease, basal cell carcinoma, Paget's disease, and squamous cell carcinoma, are also related to this type of viral infection.

2. Mucosal manifestations

Cervical cancer, anal canal cancer, tonsil cancer, oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, nasal cancer, esophageal cancer, etc.