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Lee B. Dittrich, MD; Joseph C. English III, MD; John D. Hendrix Jr, MD; James W. Patterson, MD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:1409-1414.

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REPORT OF A CASE

An 82-year-old white man presented with a 6-month history of a slowly enlarging growth on the vertex of his scalp. The lesion was nontender but had demonstrated a tendency to bleed spontaneously and drain pus over the past month. The patient felt well otherwise and was without systemic complaints. His medical history was significant only for a remote appendectomy and hernia repair, as well as for hypertension and arrhythmia. He had no personal history of skin cancer, although his father had had a skin cancer of an unknown type.

Physical examination revealed a well-appearing elderly man with a 2.5 x 3-cm, moist, erythematous, exophytic, friable, polypoid nodule on the vertex of the scalp (Figure 1). Although there was evidence of sun damage on the patient's face and scalp, there were . . . [Full Text of this Article]