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Case Reports
. 2008 Mar 25;178(7):841.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.070102.

Tache noire

Nick Daneman  1 , Robert Slinger
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Case Reports

Tache noire

Nick Daneman et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1: Black crusted lesion, or tache noire, 10 mm in diameter, on the left buttock of a 47-year-old man.
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