General Pathology USMLE Step 1 Practice Question
A 68 year old man reports the sudden appearance over 4 months of dozens of pruritic waxy brown plaques on his trunk. He also notes early satiety and unintentional weight loss. The skin lesions are diagnosed as seborrheic keratoses. Which internal malignancy is most strongly associated with this paraneoplastic presentation?
Answer choices
- ATesticular seminoma
- BPituitary adenoma
- CPapillary thyroid carcinoma
- DGastric adenocarcinomaCorrect answer
- ERenal oncocytoma
- FColorectal adenocarcinoma
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