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Case 15: Skin of Mid Lateral Back, R/O Fibroma

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An 18-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented with a bump on his left back. The patient recalled it had been present for several years and had not enlarged or changed in any way. Recently, the bump would become irritated when he would put on or take off his shirt.

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Xie, DL., Nguyen, T.H., Norman, R.A. (2020). Case 15: Skin of Mid Lateral Back, R/O Fibroma. In: Xie, DL. (eds) Clinical Cases in Dermatopathology. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28807-5_15

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