A 53-year patient consulted for this enlarging temporal blue nodule.
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Dermoscopy revealed a
blue homogeneous pattern and some barely visible
arborizing tree vessels in favour of a basal cell carcinoma.
This lesion was excised and pathology confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma.
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Fig 3: arborizing tree vessels (white arrows)