A 76-year-old Japanese male presented with a subcutaneous nodule in the dorsal cubital region of the right arm. The center of the nodule showed typical features of neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin. The peripheral portion showed epithelial islands of squamoid cells with horn cysts suggestive of benign appendageal tumor with pilar differentiation. The coexistence of two skin neoplasms in the same lesion would suggest that both tumors developed from common pluripotential stem cell.
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