Insane Moment A Man Has A Giant Cluster Of WARTS Sliced Out Of His Foot
#1 The video above shows the revolting moment a huge cluster of warts is cut out of a man's foot by a podiatrist
Dr Krawetz continues: ‘What I'm going to do today is cut these out and cut a little bit of the area out around the warts to kill the viral particles.'
He numbs the foot with an antiseptic injection, remarking that this can be ‘a little bit painful'.
‘The good thing is you don't hear any screaming in the background,' he adds.
Warts are caused by an infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV).
The virus causes an excess amount of keratin, a hard protein, to develop in the top skin layer (epidermis).
The extra keratin produces the rough, hard texture of a wart.
Dr Krawetz explains he has to cut around the wart, including the surrounding healthy skin, because it may contain viral particles that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
Using thick scissors, he cuts a huge crater of flesh out of the man's foot.
‘The viral particles only live in the skin,' he says as he chops. ‘There are five layers of skin and the wart lives in the bottom layer, the stratum germinativum.
‘I'm removing all this stuff around the wart, which is good skin and viral-infected tissue.'
#2 Dr Leo Krawetz cuts five layers deep into the skin to remove the warts, which he shows to the camera (pictured). He also removed some surrounding healthy skin, leaving a crater-like wound
After he removes a white lump of skin, the raw wound is visible underneath.
Turning the clump to face the camera, the shiny white warts become visible.
He says: ‘You can see this is the chunk of warty particles. This is the inside, this is the stuff that's inside. Those are millions of viral particles.'
Next, he cleans the wound, explaining he has cut so deep into the skin some fat is visible, which can scar if the patient puts weight on his foot.
He tells the unnamed patient the cut will take four weeks to heal, and he will see him for a follow up session in a couple of weeks.
#3 Watch The Disturbing Footage
Zooming the camera in on the yellow heel, Dr Krawetz points to warts on a man's foot, which look dry and scab-like.
He says: ‘Today I have a patient who has a wart on the bottom of their heel and it's actually a mosaic wart which means that there's more than a few warts there.'
Mosaic warts, often found on the hands and feet, grow in clusters and form a a tile-like pattern.