Cutaneous malignancies simulating seborrheic keratoses: An underappreciated phenomenon?

@article{Chen2017CutaneousMS,
  title={Cutaneous malignancies simulating seborrheic keratoses: An underappreciated phenomenon?},
  author={Tiffany Y Chen and Annie O. Morrison and Clay J Cockerell},
  journal={Journal of Cutaneous Pathology},
  year={2017},
  volume={44},
  pages={747 - 748},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:11350866}
}
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