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Solar keratosis or sunspots
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- Solar or Actinic Keratosis is
characterized by small patches of flesh-colored, pink, or slightly darker areas of skin. These occur on sun-exposed areas of the body (face, scalp, back of hands, neck, and chest) and have a sandpaper feel.
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- Gray, flesh, or pink-colored localized skin lesions
- Surface of the lesion is flat
- Surface becomes rough like sandpaper
- May become wartlike
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- Long periods of sun exposure
- Light-skinned individuals, the very young, and the elderly are at risk.
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- Made by examination
- If diagnosis is uncertain, a skin biopsy may be performed.
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- Freezing with liquid nitrogen
- Fluorouracil cream
- Masoprocol cream
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- Rarely, does this condition turn into squamous cell skin cancer (1 in 1000 each year).
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