Patients and Clinical Characteristics
The demographic, clinical, and surgical characteristics of the two
groups are shown in Table 1 .
The study group included 72.9% men with a median age of 67 years
(range, 23 to 103 years). The distribution of primary clinical skin T
stages was in Table 1 , T2 and T3 were more prevalent. The
locations of these were: auricular, 22.9%; scalp, 14.8%; frontal,
10.8%; eyelid, 22.9%; malar, 13.5%; and nose, 9.4%.
Comorbidities were observed in 90.5% of the patients; 20.2%
immunosuppressed due to some kind of transplant. The mean follow-up was
35.8 months.