Remark some cases of maxillofacial skin cancer treated in Hue Central Hospital for 1998-2003
- Author:
Nguyen Hong Loi
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
maxillofacial skin cancer
- MeSH:
Skin Neoplasms;
Case reports;
Maxillofacial Abnormalities;
Therapeutics
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2004;472(2):58-60
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
48 cases of facial skin cancer (18 males, 30 females, aged 8-83 years) were admitted in Hue Central Hospital in 1996 – 2003 period. Among them, basocell cancers were common and leading causes on the face and neck areas. The disease occurred mainly in > 50 years old age, more common in female than in male, in rural people than in urban and most occurred in the centre of the face. Sun irradiation was the mainly important risk factor. Clinically, basocell cancer on the face was detected late with slow progress, little gland and no far metastasis. Basocell cancers had got good prognosis. Large removal the surrounding tissues and using local flap flexibly according the concrete site gave good outcomes functionally and esthetically.
