Basal Cell Carcinoma-A Retrospective Descriptive Study Integrated in Current Literature

Carmen Giuglea; Andrei Marin; Iulia Gavrila; Alexandra Paunescu; Nicoleta Amalia Dobrete; Silviu Adrian Marinescu

doi:10.3390/life13030832

Basal Cell Carcinoma-A Retrospective Descriptive Study Integrated in Current Literature

Life (Basel). 2023 Mar 19;13(3):832. doi: 10.3390/life13030832.

Authors

Carmen Giuglea^{1

2}, Andrei Marin^{1

2}, Iulia Gavrila^{1

2}, Alexandra Paunescu³, Nicoleta Amalia Dobrete⁴, Silviu Adrian Marinescu^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Pastic Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020021 Bucharest, Romania.
² Plastic Surgery Department, "St. John" Hospital, 042122 Bucharest, Romania.
³ Pathology Department, "St. John" Hospital, 042122 Bucharest, Romania.
⁴ Hematology Department, Ploiesti County Hospital, 100576 Ploiesti, Romania.
⁵ Plastic Surgery Department, "Bagdasar Arseni" Hospital, 041915 Bucharest, Romania.

Abstract

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is considered to be the most common cancer in humans. It has a slow growth rhythm, and for this reason, metastases are rare. For our retrospective study, we selected 180 patients from those who underwent surgery for a variety of skin tumours between January 2019 and August 2022 and whose histopathological examination revealed basal cell carcinoma. All surgeries were performed by plastic surgeons at the "St. John" hospital in Bucharest. The aim of this article is to provide observational data regarding BCC-in terms of histopathology and diagnostic and therapeutic management and to integrate these data into the current knowledge of this pathology.

Keywords: basal cell carcinoma; skin cancer; skin surgery.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.