This week's case discussion, submitted by Dr Heather Lawson, features a 64-year-old female patient with no personal history of skin cancer who presents for a routine skin check.
This regressing lesion is discovered on her shin. What do you think of it, and what would you do next?
A punch excision was performed, and the pathology result was pigmented superficial basal cell carcinoma.
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