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Clinical Presentation of Actinic Keratoses and Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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Specialty Dermatology
Date 1999 Dec 22
PMID 10607350
Citations 39
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Abstract

Background: Actinic keratosis is a skin lesion that can progress to squamous cell carcinoma but cannot always be clinically distinguished from a squamous cell carcinoma.

Objective: The purpose of this article is to describe the clinical presentation of actinic keratoses and squamous cell carcinoma.

Methods: The author's clinical experience and a review of the literature were used to describe actinic keratoses and squamous cell carcinoma.

Results: There is a continuum and a progression from actinic keratoses to squamous cell carcinoma so that there is no way to reliably distinguish between the two diagnoses.

Conclusion: Because it can be impossible to distinguish between an actinic keratosis and squamous cell carcinoma, treatment of actinic keratoses should be aggressive to stop the progression to squamous cell carcinoma.

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