Skin Cell Tumors (IMAGE)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Skin Cell Tumors

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Early skin cancer that is colonized with a commensal papillomavirus looks like a wart to the immune system and is effectively eliminated. Keratin 6+ hyperplastic epidermis (red) and Ki67+ proliferative cells (green) mark a wart-like skin tumor. Cell nuclei are seen in blue.

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Jon Messerschmidt

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