cutaneous horn

Other cases have reported cutaneous horns arising from burn scars.

Cutaneous horns are the only examples of horns growing on people.

There are living people, several in China, with cases of cutaneous horns, most common in the elderly.

Relapsing cutaneous horns of the lips has been reported in this condition.

The cutaneous horn appears as a funnel-shaped growth that extends from a red base on the skin.

His feet, once smothered in "cutaneous horns", are now small enough to slip into flip-flops.

It can present as a cutaneous horn.

The cause of cutaneous horns is still unknown, but it is believed that exposure to radiation can trigger the condition.

The virus, unchecked by the immune system, causes the overproduction of keratin by skin cells, resulting in lesions resembling warts or cutaneous horns.

The 37-year-old has been allowed to leave the hospital in West Java where he has nine operations to remove 95 per cent of the growths, known as cutaneous horns.

Cutaneous horns, also known by the Latin name cornu cutaneum, are unusual keratinous skin tumors with the appearance of horns, or sometimes of wood or coral.

The virus was able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells", ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance causing tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns".

Dede Koswara, who is in his late 30s, had more than a stone of warts cut from his body earlier this year and the former fisherman hoped to live independently for the first time since the cutaneous horns sprouted when he was a teenager.