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• Clinical features:
– Sun-exposed head, neck, and upper extremities
– Elderly patients (mean age 75), male predominance
– Rarely in children
– Red color often resembles angiosarcoma, but usually indistinguishable from other cutaneous neoplasms
– Usually about 2 cm in diameter at time of presentation
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Smoller, B.R., Hiatt, K.M. (2011). Merkel Cell Carcinoma. In: Epidermal Cell Tumors: The Basics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7704-5_7
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