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Cadaver wart

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A warty growth on the hand due to tuberculosis, typically of someone doing postmortem examinations.

A cadaver with unsuspected tuberculosis was once a major hazard for pathologists and others in the autopsy room.

Cadaver warts were among the least of the dangers.</P> A cadaver wart is known by a number of other names including anatomical tubercle, anatomical wart, dissection tubercle, necrogenic wart, postmortem tubercle, prosector's tubercle, prosector's wart, tuberculosis cutis verrucosa and verruca necrogenica.

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