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Pathology of Primary Nonlymphoid and Non-mesenchymal Skin Cancer

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Skin cancer represents the most common type of human cancer and encompasses a great number of malignant neoplasms deriving from different cells of the human skin [1]. The most common tumors arise from epithelial cells of the epidermis and the adnexa. There are also tumors of neuroendocrine cells (Merkel cell carcinoma) [2] or of melanocytes, namely, melanoma [3]. The other tumors derive from the lymphohematopoietic system [3] and the mesenchyme.

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  2. Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Frangia-Tsivou, K., Mihm, M.C. (2020). Pathology of Primary Nonlymphoid and Non-mesenchymal Skin Cancer. In: Papadopoulos, O., Papadopulos, N.A., Champsas, G. (eds) Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer and Cutaneous Melanoma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18797-2_3

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