Korean J Otorhinolaryngol-Head Neck Surg.  2008 Nov;51(11):1043-1046.

Clinical Study of Facial Skin Cancer

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea. hlpch@paran.com

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Malignant skin cancer is the most common type of malignancy, and is frequently found and increasing nowadays. Surgery for removal of skin cancer is very important. The authors had good results from surgery and reconstruction of facial defect. The effective surgical method and variable method of reconstruction are described here with a clinical analysis.
SUBJECTS AND METHOD
19 patients who were diagnosed facial skin cancer were divided by age, sex, type of cancer, region, and reconstruction method, and they were analyzed retrospectively.
RESULTS
Of the 19 patients, squamous cell carcinomas were 5, basal cell carcinomas 11, and Merkel cell carcinoma 2. One patient had basosquamous cell carcinoma. Sites of skin cancer occurrence was nasal region (11 patients), auricular region (4 patients), cheek (2 patients) and preauricle (2 patients). Reconstruction was done right after the excision. There was no recurrence cases to date.
CONCLUSION
The authors had good results regarding reconstruction following the excision of the skin cancer. Therefore, every physician have to consider this method as a treatment of skin cancer, and think of as many reconstruction methods as possible for the patient.

Keyword

Skin cancer; Excision; Reconstruction

MeSH Terms

Carcinoma, Basal Cell
Carcinoma, Merkel Cell
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Cheek
Humans
Recurrence
Retrospective Studies
Skin
Skin Neoplasms
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