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| | Ask The Experts: Cadaver Warts from Autopsy by MedicineNet.com |
 | | Rather, cadaver wart is a term that has been used to refer to a raised, wartlike growth on the hand due to tuberculosis, typically occurring in pathologists or laboratory workers who have been involved with postmortem examinations (autopsies), or processing of surgically removed tissue from a person infected with tuberculosis. |
 | | A cadaver with unsuspected tuberculosis was once a major hazard for pathologists and others in the autopsy room. |
 | | 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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