Traumatic tattoo as a clinical and dermoscopic mimicker of pigmented basal cell carcinoma and other tumors: a series of three cases.

Int J Dermatol

Melanoma and Skin Cancer Unit, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Published: August 2023

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