Diseases
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Clinical manifestations
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Para-clinical findings
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Additional findings
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Symptoms
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Skin Examination
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Lab Findings
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Histopathology
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Symptoms
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Symptoms
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Dermoscopic Findings
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Skin exam 1
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Skin exam 2
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Skin exam 3
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Risk factors
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Areas affected
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Unique features
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Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in situ (Bowen's disease)
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- Well-demarcated, scaly patch or plaque
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- Hyperkeratotic, or ulcerative lesions
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- Lesions are often erythematous but can also be skin colored or pigmented.
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- Any cutaneous surface, including the head, neck, trunk, extremities, oral mucosa, shoulders, chest and back
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- In fair-skinned individuals, SCCs most commonly arise in sites frequently exposed to the sun
- In black individuals, common sites for SCC include the legs, anus, and areas of chronic inflammation or scarring
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- Keratinocytic dysplasia involving the full thickness of the epidermis without infiltration of atypical cells into the dermis
- The keratinocytes are pleomorphic with hyperchromatic nuclei, and numerous mitoses are present.
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- SCC in situ lesions tend to grow slowly, enlarging over the course of years
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Invasive squamous cell carcinoma
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- White circles, keratin, blood spots, and white structureless zones
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- Well-differentiated lesions usually appear as indurated or firm, hyperkeratotic papules, plaques, or nodules
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- Poorly differentiated lesions are usually fleshy, soft, granulomatous papules or nodules that lack the hyperkeratosis that is often seen in well-differentiated lesions
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- Poorly differentiated tumors may have ulceration, hemorrhage, or areas of necrosis.
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same as above
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same as above
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same as above
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Keratoacanthoma
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Usually asymptomatic
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White circles, keratin, blood spots, and white structureless zones
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Initial lesion: small pink macule
Later: papular quality and eventually forms a circumscribed nodule.
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The periphery of the nodule tends to be skin-colored or mildly erythematous and may have accompanying telangiectasias
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The center of the nodule typically demonstrates a prominent keratinous core.
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- Skin color
- Ultraviolet radiation
- Genetics
- Drug exposure (BRAF inhibitors)
- Trauma (surgery, laser therapy, cryotherapy or accidental trauma)
- Chemical carcinogens (tar, pitch, polyaromatic hydrocarbons)
- Human papillomavirus infection
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- Develops on sun-exposed areas of the skin.
- The face (especially the eyelids, nose, cheek, and lower lip), neck, hands, and arms are common sites for involvement
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a history of rapid growth within weeks favors this diagnosis
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- Epidermal hyperplasia with large eosinophilic keratinocytes
- Central invagination with a keratotic core (in later stages)
- "Lipping" or "buttressing" of the epidermis over the peripheral rim of the central keratotic plug
- Sharp demarcation between the tumor and the surrounding stroma
- Mixed inflammatory infiltrate in the dermis
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- It is controversial whether keratoacanthomas represent a subtype of well-differentiated SCC or a separate entity
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Merkel cell carcinoma
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Usually asymptomatic
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Milky red areas; linear, irregular vessels; and polymorphous vessels
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rapidly growing, painless, firm, nontender, shiny, flesh-colored or bluish-red, intracutaneous nodule
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No more additional findings
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No more additional findings
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Older patients with light skin tones
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- Starts on areas of skin exposed to the sun
- Most frequent locations for the primary tumor are head and neck, upper limbs and shoulder, lower limbs and hip, and trunk
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- Strands or nests of monotonously uniform, round, blue cells, containing large basophilic nuclei with powdery dispersed chromatin and inconspicuous nucleoli, and minimal cytoplasm
- Single-cell necrosis, frequent mitoses, lymphovascular invasion, perineural invasion, and epidermal involvement via pagetoid spread.
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Blue-red, dome-shaped nodule
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Nodular basal cell carcinoma
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Usually asymptomatic
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Pearly papule with telangiectasias
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Pink or flesh-colored papule
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No more additional findings
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none
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Typically presents on the face
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May have a "rolled" border, where the periphery is more raised than the middle.
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Ulceration is frequent, and the term "rodent ulcer" refers to these ulcerated nodular BCCs
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Superficial basal cell carcinoma
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Scaly patch
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Erythematous lesion
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No more additional findings
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- large, hyperchromatic, oval nuclei and little cytoplasm
- well differentiated and cells appear histologically similar to basal cells of the epidermis
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Prurigo nodules
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Usually asymptomatic
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Firm, dome-shaped and itchy
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ranging in size from a few millimeters to several centimeters and often symmetrically distributed
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Nodules can be flesh-colored, erythematous, or brown/black
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- Extensor surfaces of the arms and legs and on the trunk
- Upper back, abdomen, and sacrum
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Worsened by heat, sweating, or irritation from clothing
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- Thick, compact orthohyperkeratosis
- Irregular epidermal hyperplasia or pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia
- Focal parakeratosis with irregular acanthosis
- Diminished nerve fiber density
- A nonspecific dermal infiltrate containing lymphocytes, macrophages, eosinophils, and neutrophils
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Nodules range in number from few to hundreds
upper midback area is usually spared
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Common nevus
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- Comma-shaped or curved vessels
- Structureless skin-colored to light brown background pigmentation
- Residual brown globules (clods) or brown thick circles, mainly located around the hair follicles can sometimes be seen
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- Dome-shaped, usually nonpigmented or hypopigmented nodules with a smooth surface
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- Terminal hairs are often present
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Blue nevus
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- Structureless blue pigmentation
- Structureless blue and white or blue and brown on some occasions
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- Bluish macules or papules
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- Head and neck,
- Dorsal aspect of the distal extremities
- Sacral area
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Spitz nevus
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Solar lentigo
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Lentigo Maligna
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Lentigo Maligna Melanoma
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Sebaceous hyperplasia
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Lichen planus-like keratosis
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Seborrheic keratosis
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Actinic keratosis
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less pigmentation, and tend to be somewhat smaller in size.
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Erythema
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Hyperkeratosis
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painful
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Nodular malignant melanoma
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Usually asymptomatic
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Lump that has been rapidly growing over the past weeks
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No more additional findings
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No more additional findings
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none
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Cells proliferate downwards through the skin (vertical growth)
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- Two-thirds arise in normal skin, the rest in existing moles
- Genetic component in some cases with a positive family history
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Amelanotic melanoma
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Usually asymptomatic
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Color usually pink, purple or normal skin color
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Usually have an asymmetrical shape with an irregular border
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Red, nonspecific lesion with slightly elevated borders
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- Do not make melanin, so lesions are not pigmented
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