Primary Cutaneous Apocrine Carcinoma
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Vol. 28, No. 5, 2016 669 Received December 2, 2014, Revised September 18, 2015, Accepted for publication October 6, 2015 Corresponding author: Bark-Lynn Lew, Department of Dermatology, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, 892 Dongnam-ro, Gangdong-gu, Seoul 05278, Korea. Tel: 82-2-440-7329, Fax: 82-2-440-7336, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © The Korean Dermatological Association and The Korean Society for Investigative Dermatology Fig. 1. The 1.2×1.0 cm sized flesh to reddish colored pedunculated nodule on the right axilla. REFERENCES
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