A 36-Year-Old Man With an Enlarging Nodule on the Buttock

Alejandro A Gru1, Andrea L Salavaggione, Milan J Anadkat

  • 1*Division of Dermatopathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; †Division of Hematopathology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; ‡Department of Radiation Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH; §Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Dermatology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; and ¶Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO.

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