Clinical features of basocellular carcinoma patients. A 305 cases serie in Bucaramanga

• Main Authors: Luis Alfonso Díaz Martínez, Ricardo Flaminio Rojas López
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga 2002-08-01
• Series: Medunab
• Subjects: Skin neoplasms; basocellular carcinoma; aging
• Online Access: http://caribdis.unab.edu.co/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/REVISTAMEDUNAB/NUMEROSANTERIORES/REVISTA514/BASEOCELULAR.PDF

Basocellular carcinomais maligne skin neoplasia more common. Its growing is slow,low mortality but sometime is very destructive and producehigh social and laboral disability. Sunlight is principal knownrisk factor. The objective of this study was to describedemographical, clinical, histopathologic and treatmentcharacteristics of a patient series from a privatedermatological consult in Bucaramanga, Colombia. FromJune 1996 to may 2002, a total of 305 BCC cases succeedwith histopathologic confirmation were studied. We identified391 lesions in 305 patients, your age was from to 27 to 100year old (22% under 50 year old); 57.7% was female. Menshowed more lesions than women (1.38 ± 0,79 vs 1,22 ±0,64, p = 0.013). Patients presenting more lesions were older.Ninety percent of lesions was in head and neck (22.4%,nose). Clinical presentation more frequent was nodular(65%). 13.2% of lesions had more than one histologicalclassification. Superficial BCC were more usual out headand neck. We conclude that BCC in this case series presentclinical features similar to others geographic regions, withexception the high number of superficial lesions.