Keratoacanthoma - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

keratoacanthoma

Body Site

arm

Age

48 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

Comments

A 48 year old man with a history of chronic actinic damamge and immunosuppression associated with renal transplantaiton developed a rapidly growing pink tumor with a central dimple filled with scale. He has had multiple squamous cell carcinomas and keratoacanthomas on sun exposed sites since his renal transplant 10 years earlier.

Description

pink nodule with central umbilicated scale

Image Added

6/10/2001 14:05:17

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