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Tumors of the Skin

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Although skin tumors are common, they are rarely graded. This chapter covers only the grading of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and some mesenchymal and pigmented lesions.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

    Omar P. Sangüeza MD (Professor of Pathology), Rachel Careccia MD (Assistant Professor of Pathology) & Carlos Cerruto MD (Assistant Professor of Pathology)

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  1. School of Medicine, The University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas

    Ivan Damjanov MD, PhD (Professor of Pathology) & Fang Fan MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Pathology) (Professor of Pathology) &  (Assistant Professor of Pathology)

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Sangüeza, O.P., Careccia, R., Cerruto, C. (2007). Tumors of the Skin. In: Damjanov, I., Fan, F. (eds) Cancer Grading Manual. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33751-7_14

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