Calciphylaxis – Friday Pop Quiz 5/21
A 65-year-old female patient presents with poorly demarcated, symmetric, very painful patches of erythema and retiform purpura, favoring the thighs and buttocks. Bullae and a dusky gray discoloration developed, as well as the appearance of ulcerations with black, leathery eschars. A skin biopsy of the affected area is suggestive of calciphylaxis. Shortly after, she dies from secondary infectio …
A 65-year-old female patient presents with poorly demarcated, symmetric, very painful patches of erythema and retiform purpura, favoring the thighs and buttocks. Bullae and a dusky gray discoloration developed, as well as the appearance of ulcerations with black, leathery eschars. A skin biopsy of the affected area is suggestive of calciphylaxis. Shortly after, she dies from secondary infectio … 
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This tumor commonly results from mutations in p53. Which of the following is correct?
A. It is the most common type of skin cancer in Caucasians
B. Oral variants most commonly present on the dorsal tongue
C. It is typically less aggressive in patients with CLL
D. plant patients have a 10-fold increased risk of developing this tumor
E. Tumors arising within scars/chronic ulcers h …