The nurse reassures the distressed 75-year-old male that the wartlike dark macules with distinct borders are not melanomas, but the skin lesion of:
a. senile lentigo.
b. cutaneous papillomas.
c. seborrheic keratosis.
d. xerosis.
ANS: C
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