What is an actinic keratosis?

Actinic keratosis is a scaly lesion found on sun-damaged skin. It is considered precancerous because a cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma may arise from actinic keratosis. Actinic keratosis is also known as AK and solar keratosis.

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