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LAS VEGAS -- Certain ulcerated nodules typically found on the sun-damaged heads of elderly men are diagnostically ambiguous in more ways than one.
Clinically, they may be mistaken for basal cell carcinomas or pyogenic granulomas.
Pathologically, it's not easy to differentiate between atypical fibroxanthoma, spindle cell squamous cell carcinoma, or spindle cell malignant melanoma. "I face this problem about 100 times a year," Dr. Loren E. Golitz said at a dermatology conference sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb...
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