Dear Susan,
Current course content suggests that corns contain a
nucleus of parakeratotic cells that is not present in plain HK.
Thats my memory of it anyway.
Regards Phill Carter
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From: Susan Stacpoole-Shea <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, 26 May 1999 7:41
Subject: corns? callus?
>Hello,
>
>Can someone please clarify the difference between a corn and a callus?
>
>I have always thought that a callus was an area of thickened skin, while a
>corn was a deep focused hard but quite small area of dense callus,
>regardless of location.
>
>However, now that I am in the USA I have heard that a corn is thickened
skin
>on the dorsum of the toes, whether it has a hard center or not. Where as a
>callus is a thickened area of skin on the plantar surface, with or without
a
>hard center.
>
>What say you?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Susan
>
>Susan Stacpoole-Shea
>Research Fellow
>Dept of Orthopaedics
>Podiatry Research
>University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas, USA
>
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