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A 60-year-old white man with a past medical history significant for hypertension and hyperlipidemia presents to his family medicine physician with concerns about a 'spot' on his ear. He has been a construction worker for 35 years and spends most of his time outside. His family history is insignificant. On physical examination, there is a dark lesion on his left ear. The patient states that he has always had a mole in this location but that it has recently become much larger. A review of systems is otherwise negative. Which of the following lesion characteristics would be MOST reassuring among the given options?

A 57-year-old post-menopausal woman comes to the physician because of intermittent, bloody post-coital vaginal discharge for the past month. She does not have pain with intercourse. Eleven years ago, she had LSIL on a routine Pap smear and testing for high-risk HPV strains was positive. Colposcopy showed CIN 1. She has not returned for follow-up Pap smears since then. She is sexually active with her husband only, and they do not use condoms. She has smoked half a pack of cigarettes per day for the past 25 years and does not drink alcohol. On speculum exam, a 1.4 cm, erythematous exophytic mass with ulceration is noted on the posterior wall of the upper third of the vagina. Which of the following is the most probable histopathology of this mass?