Clinical Case Database / Category: Clinical Care
Skin cancer
Publication details
Zahir B Mirza BSc MBChB, Zainab Laftah BSc MBChB
Foundation Years Journal, volume 2, issue 9, p.354 (123Doc Education, London, November 2008)
Abstract
A 76-year-old caucasion man was referred by his general practitioner to the dermatology outpatients clinic because of a non-healing skin lesion on his scalp.
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Authors
Zahir B Mirza BSc MBChB (Corresponding author)
Academic Foundation Year One House Officer
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Heart of England Foundation Trust
Bordesley Green East
Birmingham
B9 5SS
drzahirmirza@hotmail.com
Zainab Laftah BSc MBChB
Foundation Year One House Officer
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham
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