Research Article
An Analysis of Biopsies for Suspected Skin Cancer at a Tertiary Care Dermatology Clinic in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
Table 1
Diagnosis of all biopsies.
| Histological diagnoses () (%) | BCC | 252 (36.21) | SCC | 87 (12.5) | SCCI | 37 (5.32) | KS | 31 (4.45) | Melanoma | 28 (4.02) | Keratoacanthoma | 21 (3.02) | Other malignant | 4 (0.57) | Solar keratosis | 6 (0.86) | Melanocytic naevi | 21 (3.02) | Seborrhoeic keratosis | 29 (4.17) | Dermatofibroma | 5 (0.72) | Other benign | 129 (18.53) | Insufficient biopsy/no histological dx | 20 (2.87) |
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