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Rev Cent Dermatol Pascua 2003; 12 (3)

Keratoacanthoma. Case report

Alcalá D, Gutiérrez R, Gutiérrez RM, Medina A, Ramos-Garibay A

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 126-130
PDF size: 78.16 Kb.


ABSTRACT

A 47-year-old woman presented with a crater-shaped, symmetrical, sharply demarcated, erythematous tumor or 27 mm diameter that developed within 3 weeks at the paranasal zone. Results from a biopsy were compatible with the clinical diagnosis of keratoacanthoma. Because the diameter and the localization the tumor was removed by radiotherapy.


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