Though it is difficult to make any definitive assessment of a problem without physical examination, it is entirely possible from your description that your condition was caused by a puncturing type wound which cause the epidermis (the outer non-living skin tissue) to be invaginated or driven below the dermis (living skin tissue. The body recognizes this tissue as a foreign body and will frequently encapsulate it, causing an indurated nodule which may or may not be painful.
If it is of concern to you, I would first suggest a currettage procedure, similar to that which is commonly performed for warts, where the lesion is circumscribed and shelled out. If the germinative layer of the skin had been broached by the suppossed puncture, some amout of scar tissue will be inevitable and recurrance is not uncommon.
Warts, which are viral tumors of the skin, can also result from such punctures when the virus had existed on the skin and is driven in by the puncture. This, however, should be relative easy to distinguish by close physical examination.
There are many treatments for warts, including the one I have outlined above. |
