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A Painless Unilateral Acral Papule

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A healthy young man presented with an asymptomatic unilateral red papule in his forearm. The clinical presentation combined with the histological features suggested a rare and distinct type of pseudolymphoma. Other differential diagnoses were excluded by histology and immunohistochemistry.

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El-Darouti, M.A., Al-Ali, F.M. (2019). A Painless Unilateral Acral Papule. In: Challenging Cases in Dermatology Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21855-3_30

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