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 () (%)BCC252 (36.21)
SCC87 (12.5)
SCCI37 (5.32)
KS31 (4.45)
Melanoma28 (4.02)
Keratoacanthoma21 (3.02)
Other malignant4 (0.57)
Solar keratosis6 (0.86)
Melanocytic naevi21 (3.02)
Seborrhoeic keratosis29 (4.17)
Dermatofibroma5 (0.72)
Other benign129 (18.53)
Insufficient biopsy/no histological dx20 (2.87)