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A female aged 57 years, a professional flautist by occupation presented with a history of non-healing ‘pimple’ on her left upper lip, which was gradually increasing in size over 6 months. There was history of occasional yellowish discharge and bleeding, provoked by her attempts to remove it. On examination, there was a firm non-tender swelling with fine, white crusting, measuring 5 mm at its widest along with surrounding induration of 1 cm (figure 1A), without involvement of the inner mucosa of lip.
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Contributors IA is the treating senior resident (radiotherapy), author of the paper, responsible for drafting the manuscript and revising it. He is the guarantor. KSC is the supervising treating consultant (radiotherapy) and participated in article formulation, editing and oversight. CPB is the medical physicist, responsible for generating the radiation treatment plan, performing quality assurance of delivered plan and also participated in article editing. SR is the radiation technologist, responsible for creating the treatment setup, ensuring reproducible setup and treatment delivery during the course of treatment. He also participated in article editing.
Competing interests None declared.
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