A mole generally refers to a pigmented nevus, a nevus is the common term for a mole, and a wart refers to a common wart. The difference between them is that they have different causes, different symptoms and different treatments.
1. Different causes: moles or nevi are benign skin tumors of melanocyte origin; common warts are benign skin abnormalities caused by human papilloma virus infection.
2. Different symptoms:
(1) Moles or nevus lesions are flat or slightly elevated patches, or papules, smooth surface, may or may not have hair, the number varies, there is no pain or itching symptoms, and is not contagious.
(2) common warts, manifested as soybean size or larger gray, brown, brown or skin color pimples, surface roughness, hard texture, can be papillary hyperplasia, some will appear itching symptoms, some do not have any feeling, with a certain degree of contagious.
3. Treatment is different: moles or nevus generally do not need treatment, occurring in the palm and plantar, waist, groin, shoulder and other parts of easy friction or injury, can be surgically excised, there is a tendency to malignant transformation should be timely excision, while doing pathological examination; common warts can be frozen, laser, electrocautery and other physical treatment measures, but also can be coated with fluoro uracil cream, phthalidomide cream and other medication.
Moles, nevus, common warts may have other differences, need to go to the hospital to check, follow the doctor’s advice treatment. The above drugs and operations need to be used in accordance with medical advice.