Abstract
An atypical pigmented lesion of the nose
Highlights
A 56-year-old Caucasian woman, with skin phototype III, presented with an asymptomatic, slow-growing, gray-black plaque on her nose
The diagnoses proposed to the pathologist included basal cell carcinoma, adnexal tumor and melanoma, but the lesion was described as non-specific
Histopathologic examination revealed an aggregation of atypical epithelial cells in the dermis (Figure 3), severe solar eosinophilic elastosis, squamous eddy, atypical and necrotic epithelial squamous cells and pigmented deposits of melanin (Figure 4)
Summary
A 56-year-old Caucasian woman, with skin phototype III, presented with an asymptomatic, slow-growing, gray-black plaque on her nose. An atypical pigmented lesion of the nose Francesco Savoia1, Giuseppe Gaddoni1, Vincenzo Albano1, Vera Tengattini2, Lorenza Ricci2, Annalisa Patrizi2, Emilia Crisanti3
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