What disease is cauliflower

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Cauliflower disease, also known as condyloma acuminatum, genital warts or venereal warts, is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillomavirus. The incubation period is about 3 months, the shorter is 3 weeks, and the older is more than 8 months, with an average of 3 months. It is mainly the sexually active population, with the age of 20-30 as the peak. The onset depends largely on the number of virus inoculated and the specific immunity of the body. The clinical manifestations are sharp and moist, so it is named.

What disease is cauliflower

Cauliflower disease is the color of condyloma acuminatum mostly red, light red, can also be light white to gray white, but also because of the damage site and damage type and different. The lesions may occur singly, or multiple at the same time or successively, and then gradually grow outside the skin or mucous membrane, and gradually increase. Some lesions may fuse with each other to form various sizes and shapes of vegetations or tumors.

There are three manifestations of condyloma acuminatum of external genitalia: ① highly proliferative condyloma acuminatum, which is usually large, moist and ciliated, and is common in male glans and female labia; ② flat condyloma acuminatum, which is composed of many small scattered lesions of condyloma acuminatum, usually small flesh colored papules, and its appearance is the same as that of large lesions of condyloma acuminatum, which mostly occurs in male (3) verrucous condyloma acuminatum, which is a well-defined verruca vulgaris, often invades vulva and other skin parts.

The clinical diagnosis of condyloma acuminatum can be made for the typical verrucous or cauliflower like tumor around vulva and anus. For the damage of early and subclinical infection, acetic acid white test is positive, and colposcopy (female) or urethroscopy (male) should be performed at the same time. The diagnosis of condyloma acuminatum requires histopathological examination. If the diagnosis is still difficult, the specific HPV antigen in tissue samples can be detected by histochemical method; or the HPV nucleic acid in tissue samples can be detected by in situ hybridization and PCR technology.

matters needing attention

1. To eliminate the fear of patients with cauliflower disease 2. To check the patients with cauliflower disease for other sexually transmitted diseases 3. To understand the sexual partner or husband (wife) of patients with cauliflower disease 4. Patients with cauliflower disease should be prohibited from having sex during treatment 5. The daily necessities of patients with cauliflower disease should be used alone