loading...| Preferred Name |
Keratoacanthoma |
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| Synonyms |
Keratoacanthoma Cutaneous Keratoacanthoma Skin Keratoacanthoma keratoacanthoma |
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| Definitions |
A dome-shaped, rapidly growing skin lesion composed of well differentiated squamous cells. It usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of the body, most often the head, neck, and limbs. It is considered a variant of well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma with distinct clinical behavior. Keratoacanthomas affect males more frequently than females and the majority tend to regress spontaneously. |
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| ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C3146 |
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| ALT_DEFINITION |
A rapidly growing, dome-shaped skin tumor that usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of the body, especially around the head and neck. Keratoacanthoma occurs more often in males. Although in most patients it goes away on its own, in a few patients it comes back. Rarely, it may spread to other parts of the body. |
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| code |
C3146 |
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| Concept_In_Subset |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C192842 |
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| Contributing_Source |
Cellosaurus |
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| DEFINITION |
A dome-shaped, rapidly growing skin lesion composed of well differentiated squamous cells. It usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of the body, most often the head, neck, and limbs. It is considered a variant of well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma with distinct clinical behavior. Keratoacanthomas affect males more frequently than females and the majority tend to regress spontaneously. |
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| FULL_SYN |
Keratoacanthoma Cutaneous Keratoacanthoma Skin Keratoacanthoma keratoacanthoma |
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| ICD-O-3_Code |
8071/1 |
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| label |
Keratoacanthoma |
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| Legacy Concept Name |
Keratoacanthoma |
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| Neoplastic_Status |
Malignant |
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| Preferred_Name |
Keratoacanthoma |
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| prefixIRI |
Thesaurus:C3146 |
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| Semantic_Type |
Neoplastic Process |
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| UMLS_CUI |
C0022572 |
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| subClassOf |