Condyloma subcutaneum

Condyloma subcutaneum: Molluscum contagiosum. Wartlike growths around the anus and genitals caused by a virus.

Molluscum contagiosum is a contagious disease of the skin marked by the occurrence of soft rounded tumors of the skin caused by the growth of a virus belonging to the family Poxviridae. The disease is characterized by the appearance of few to numerous small, pearly, umbilicated downgrowths (the condyloma subcutaneum).