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Skin tumors are the most common neoplasms in humans. Though rarely graded, they are often subtyped. The clinical behavior of some subtypes may vary from that of others, and these differences in outcome and prognosis form the basis for assigning them a pathological grade. I will discuss in this chapter the grading and subtyping of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanocytic neoplasms.
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Fraga, G.R. (2013). Tumors of the Skin. In: Damjanov, I., Fan, F. (eds) Cancer Grading Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34516-6_14
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