What Are Actinic Keratosis Symptoms?
Actinic Keratosis (or solar keratosis) cause symptoms in people, with fair skin that are prone to burning. It is a precancerous skin lesion that has the potential to become squamous cell carcinoma if left untreated. I’m just 37 and have areas on my forearms that have just been diagnosed as actinic keratoses. What Do They Look Like? Look at areas on your body that you think may have had extreme sun exposure over the years; your forearms, face – especially your scalp and lip, ears and nose, your hands, and perhaps your chest. You are looking for areas, some as small as a pinhead or as large as a 2pence piece that are flat, dry, rough or scaly. The colour can range from your normal skin pigment, to very light or tan and dark freckle colour. Depending on how long you have had one of these skin lesions, it may have developed into a thicker, crusty wart like growth. In just a very few cases, it can become a Cutaneous Horn, where an overgrowth of skin cells develops into a rough cone-shaped p
