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Hôpital Universitaire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Abstract
Mechanisms underlying the white color of these lesions have been addressed in Chap. 3, dedicated to macules. The most common white palpable lesions are cysts, molluscum contagiosum, and sebaceous hyperplasias. Other lesions are the manifestations of metabolic disorders such as gouty tophus or calcinoses; the latter may occur, for example, in patients with connective tissue diseases.
Mechanisms underlying the white color of these lesions have been addressed in Chap. 3, dedicated to macules. The most common white palpable lesions are cysts, molluscum contagiosum, and sebaceous hyperplasias. Other lesions are the manifestations of metabolic disorders such as gouty tophus or calcinoses; the latter may occur, for example, in patients with connective tissue diseases.
Box 33.1
Main Causes of White, Solid, Palpable Lesions
Achromic melanoma
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