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Case Reports
. 2007 Jul 31;177(3):249-51.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.061463.

Carcinoma cuniculatum

Gian Piero Lozzi  1 , Ketty Peris
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Case Reports

Carcinoma cuniculatum

Gian Piero Lozzi et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure. A 72-year-old man with a 15-year history of diabetes mellitus presented with an asymptomatic, whitish-yellow plaque on the sole of his right foot. The lesion measured 7 cm × 4.5 cm and had a verrucous surface and a peripheral hyperkeratotic collarette.
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Figure 1: Histopathologic findings of carcinoma cuniculatum. Note the presence of hyperkeratosis, parakeratosis, acanthosis and nests of well-differentiated squamous epithelium with slight atypia extending into the dermis. The lesion was surrounded by chronic inflammatory cells.
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