Skin Cancer Squamous Cell Carcinoma Keratoacanthoma Variant

Dr. Shane Chapman, MD discusses Skin Cancer Squamous Cell Carcinoma Keratoacanthoma Variant. See more at http://www.dermnet.com PLEASE RATE AND COMMENT!!!
Keratoacanthomas appear suddenly and grow rapidly. They reach a certain size, usually 0.5 cm to 2.0 cm, stop growing, and then regress weeks to months later. They begin as red-to-flesh

colored, dome-shaped papules with a smooth surface and a central crater filled with a keratinous plug. The pathologist sometimes has difficulty differentiating a keratoacanthoma from SCC.




While keratoacanthomas have been regarded in the past as self-limited, regressing lesions that resemble squamous cell carcinoma, most dermatologists today would classify them as squamous

cell carcinoma variants. They should be treated as other forms of squamous cell carcinoma.

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• Skin
• Cancer
• Squamous
• Cell
• Carcinoma
• Keratoacanthoma
• Variant

[Jonesgi11]

When on cosmetically significant locations, how deep / wide does the excision go, generally? How about healing times and reconstructive methods?

[Robert317able]

Very Good Information of these 2 differant skin Cancers.don't wast timne thinking what to do when seeing such skins cancers on You Body.check right aways.