Novel Insights for Patients with Multiple Basal Cell Carcinomas and Tumors at High-Risk for Recurrence: Risk Factors, Clinical Morphology, and Dermatoscopy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) quite frequently presents as multiple tumors in individual patients. Neoplasm's risk factors for local recurrence have a critical impact on therapeutic management.

Objective

To detect risk factors for multiple BCCs (mBCC) in individual patients and to describe clinical and dermatoscopic features of low- and high-risk tumors.

Materials & methods

Our study included 225 patients with 304 surgically excised primary BCCs. All patients' medical history and demographics were recorded. Clinical and dermatoscopic images of BCCs were evaluated for predefined criteria and statistical analyses were performed.

Results

Grade II-III sunburns before adulthood (OR 2.146, p = 0.031) and a personal history of BCC (OR 3.403, p

SUBMITTER: Sgouros D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8269292 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature