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How to tell the difference between an ingrown hair and a wart?
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Clinical exam: these 2 conditions have quite distinct clinical characteristics on clinical examination and the toenail, tends not to have hair
Answered 8/7/2015
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Simple: Wart does not have ingrown hair. Wart is very slow growing and long duration lesion. Ingrown hair usually shorter duration and easily infected. warts have irregular surface.
Answered 9/28/2016
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