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Friable Nodule on the Back

Cutis. 2015 March;95(3):E8-E11

A 78-year-old woman presented with a large friable, sharply demarcated nodule of 3 months’ duration on the left side of the back. The lesion occasionally bled but was otherwise asymptomatic. There was no perilesional paresthesia. The patient’s medical history included hypertension, depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and aortic valve disease.

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	a. dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
	b. Kaposi sarcoma
	c. malignant fibrous histiocytoma
	d. spindle cell malignant melanoma with perineural invasion
	e. squamous cell carcinoma

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