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Vascular Tumor, Widespread Rash

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A 36-year-old pregnant woman presents to the urgent care center because of a bleeding vascular tumor involving her right upper cheek. The lesion developed several weeks earlier as a small, red papule; it grew rapidly, became friable, and began to bleed.


 

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