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The main result of this paper states that a single-valued map \(T:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^m\) is pseudo-affine (i.e., both \(T\) and \(-T\) are pseudomonotone) if and only if there exist a skew-symmetric linear map \(A:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^m\), a vector \(u\in\mathbb{R}^m\) and a function \(g:\mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) such that \[ T(x)=g(x)(Ax+u) \text{ for all }x\in \mathbb{R}^n. \] The interesting proof of this result is quite elaborated and deep and, somehow unexpectedly, at some steps relies upon ideas from algebraic topology and projective geometry. By contrast, the special case when \(T\) and \(-T\) are monotone (which corresponds to the function \(g\) being constant in the above characterization) can be dealt with by an elementary, rather short proof.