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SCC's - the flavour of today

18/12/2013

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This lesion is on the leg of an older lady and has been present for a couple of years.  Recent changes.  
This is a thickened hard lesion  with coiled blood vessels at 12 o'clock.  Likely to be an SCC.   This lesion needs to be excised. 

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This lesion is on  the leg of the lady above.  There is very little thickness to this lesion and there are some dot vessels seen at 3 o'clock.  This is likely to be Bowens' (SCC in situ)  Options for treatment is to remove or freeze/thaw/freeze and review in three months.  Some people use Efudix to treat these

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