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Author Profiles

Grace K. Lee
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Grace is a second-year medical student at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. Prior to matriculation, she earned her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and worked in Consumer Healthcare at Haleon (formerly GlaxoSmithKline) in Warren, New Jersey. Her academic and professional experiences have fostered an interest in dermatology and dermatopathology.

Hina A. Sheikh, MD
Health Network Laboratories and Lehigh Valley Health Network
Dr. Sheikh is a board-certified Dermatopathologist and Molecular Genetic Pathologist. She is working at Health Network Laboratories and Lehigh Valley Health Network in eastern Pennsylvania. Her work involves outpatient biopsies as well as complex oncologic and medical skin specimens from tertiary care hospital base that she serves.
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A 72-year-old man with prior scalp melanoma, now presenting with a new raised, dark nodule on his temple
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Tumors > Other Tumors
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