Epidemiological profile of primary cutaneous melanoma over a 15-year period at a private skin cancer center in Colombia
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2018
- handle: 10670/1.72h724
- 0124-0064
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Salud Melanoma Colombia skin cancer epidemiology Latin AméricaSujets proches
Melanocytic tumor Malignant melanomaCiter ce document
Flavia C. Pozzobon et al., « Epidemiological profile of primary cutaneous melanoma over a 15-year period at a private skin cancer center in Colombia », Revista de Salud Pública, ID : 10670/1.72h724
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"Objective To describe clinical, histopathological and treatment characteristics of melanoma in a private institution of Bogotá, Colombia, and to identify differences regarding sex and age.Materials and Methods Observational, retrospective study. 415 medical records between January 1999 and May 2014 were analyzed.Results Out of 415 patients, 244 (58.8%) were females and 171 (41.2%) were males with a mean age of 56.1 ±16.2 SD. Superficial spreading melanoma (SSMM) was the main subtype (n=175, 42.7%). Breslow's thickness ≤1mm was predominant, while phototypes II and III were more frequent (n=87, 69.6%). Melanoma was predominantly localized on the head in men (n=83, 50.3%) and in the lower limbs in women (n=89, 36.8%), with a higher frequency of SSMM pattern among patients aged ≤65. Lentigo maligna (LM) was more frequent in patients aged >65 (p