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A 51-year old patient suffering from long-standing type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with a dark lesion on his forehead that had been growing for several weeks (Fig. 8.1). He had had a similar lesion several years before that had been diagnosed and treated topically as a seborrheic keratosis. Clinical examination showed a brown-grey lesion with clear but irregular margins and a smooth surface covered by a few pits. The clinical diagnosis of seborrheic keratosis was confirmed by dermoscopy.
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Nwabudike, L.C., Tatu, A.L., Oproiu, A.M., Costache, M. (2020). When Dermoscopy Exonerates a Suspect, and “Indicts” Another Lesion. In: Lotti, T., Tirant, M., Wollina, U. (eds) Clinical Cases in Melanoma. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50820-3_8
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