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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 17, 2022 (HealthDay News) — When interpreting melanocytic skin biopsy specimens, knowledge of a prior diagnosis sways dermatopathologists to make more and less severe diagnoses and can also sway them from a correct to an incorrect d…
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