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Monday 8 September 2008

Leaf-like structures

A 92-year-old woman presented a red tumor on her neck.


Dermoscopy revealed many brown structures with a leaf-like configuration located at the periphery of the lesion. This was typical of leaf-like structures, also called maple leaf-like areas in the first publications.

Leaf-like structures are quite exclusively found in basal cell carcinomas but have also been reported in featureless melanomas.

Other cases of basal cell carcinomas: 
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