Growth rates of epidermoid tumors.
Consideration of the most likely method of growth of epidermoid tumors, either congenital or traumatic in origin, suggests that they grow linearly, at rates approximately those reported for normal human skin, rather than exponentially, as most tumors do. Such a linear rate of growth would be expected of tumors derived from a single layer of basal germinal cells spread out over a surface area.
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