A benign or malignant tumor involving the skin. Representative examples of benign skin neoplasms include the benign melanocytic skin nevus, acanthoma, sebaceous adenoma, sweat gland adenoma, lipoma, hemangioma, fibroma, and benign fibrous histiocytoma. Representative examples of malignant skin neoplasms include basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, and Kaposi sarcoma. Tumors or cancer of the SKIN.
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DOID:3165; NCIT:C3372; cancer of the skin; http://identifiers.org/medgen/19993; http://identifiers.org/mesh/D012878; http://identifiers.org/snomedct/126488004; http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0037286; neoplasm of skin; neoplasm of skin by site; neoplasm of the skin; neoplasm of zone of skin; skin cancer; skin neoplasms; skin tumor; skin tumour; tumor of skin; tumor of the skin; tumor of zone of skin; tumour of skin; tumour of the skin; tumour of zone of skin; zone of skin neoplasm; zone of skin neoplasm (disease); zone of skin tumor; zone of skin tumour