Basal Cell Carcinoma: A retrospective analysis of 76 patients

摘要

Objective: To define the clinical features of cases of basal cell carcinoma in patients treated surgically in a specific period of time at King Hussein Medical Center (KHMC), Jordan. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 76 patients who were diagnosed to have basal cell carcinoma and treated surgically over a five year’s period. The following data were analyzed: age, sex and occupation for all patients. The characteristics of the tumor including clinical type, site and size, status of surgical margin and recurrence of each BCC tumor were studied. Results: The male to female ratio was 1.5 to 1, the age of patients ranged between 23 and 90 years, 40.8 % were in the age group of 60-69 years. There were 76 tumors in the 76 patients; the majority of patients had skin type III and IV. The most common site of occurrence of tumor was the nose (46.0%). The most common clinical type was the nodulo-ulcerative (42.1%). Examination of the surgical margins revealed that eleven (14.5%) of the removed lesions were incompletely excised. Over a five-year follow up time 17 patients (22.4%) developed recurrence of BCC at the site of the excision. The status of surgical margin of the tumor was reported as incompletely excised in nine of these patients (52.9%, n=17). Conclusion: The clinical features of basal cell carcinoma in our patients are similar to those in literature in many aspects. However other aspects such as gender distribution, skin type, and age are more similar to reports from Mediterranean region.