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primary lesion

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primary lesion [′prī‚mer·ē ′lē·zhən]
(medicine)
In syphilis, tuberculosis, and cowpox, a chancre.
In dermatology, the earliest clinically recognizable manifestation of cutaneous disease, such as a macule, papule, vesicle, pustule, or wheal.


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New lesions appeared on the edge of a healed scar for each patient, regardless of the location of the primary lesion (Table), and were diagnosed at Rennes University Hospital (positive direct examination or culture) in 2005.
15) Patients with primary intracranial melanoma do not have a history of cutaneous melanoma, and a thorough metastatic workup shows no evidence of a primary lesion.
After the second cycle his chest pain disappeared and the primary lesion had not regressed.
 
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