A 66-year-old woman presented to the Dermatology Outpatient Clinic of the Hosp-ital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain in 2017 with a 10-year history of a painful slow-growing erythematous lesion on her chin. A clinical examination revealed a pink, translucent, firm, non-ulcerated papule of 6 mm. No similar cutan-eous or mucosal lesions were noted anywhere else on the body. Polarised non-contact dermoscopy of the papule (Dermlite DL3N, 3Gen Inc., San Juan Capis-trano, California, USA) indicated arborising vessels on a pinkish reddish background, a central white spot and peripheral pigmentation. Dermoscopy is a useful noninvasive tool that helps to identify tumours that mimic BCCs. However, the absence of BCC features—including blue-grey ovoid nests, globules, dots or blotches and brown-grey leaf-like small erosions or 'wheel-spoke' areas—is not sufficient to warrant avoiding excision of the lesion. Clinicians should be aware of the characteristic arborising vascular patterns of SCN which appear dermoscopically as white patches on a pink-white background.