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Revision as of 01:34, 18 March 2016
Background
- Most common skin malignancy
- Rarely a metastatic process
Clinical Features
- Slow growing
- Usually head and neck
- Only where hair follicles exist
- Pearly, rolled border
- Central ulceration
Differential Diagnosis
Other Rash
- Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis
- Allergic reaction
- Aphthous stomatitis
- Atopic dermatitis
- Coxsackie
- Dermatitis herpetiformis
- Exfoliative erythroderma
- Impetigo
- Pellagra
- Pityriasis rosea
- Serum Sickness
- Tinea capitus
- Tinea corporis
- Vitiligo