CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (BCC) OF THE HEAD AND NECK

Objective- To study the BCC clinicopathological characteristics of neck and head

Material and Methods- This was a randomized control trial type study conducted in DHQ D.G khan  in which E and H staining techniques were used to analyze the clinicopathological characteristics of BCC of neck and head. In this study total 114 patients were selected and analyzed on the base of tumor location, gender age, and histopathological variant and then SPSS was used for statistical analysis.

Results- The results of this study revealed that comparatively males have high ratio of suffering in BCC as ratio between males and females for BCC is 2.5:1 and the most anatomical site was nose and then eye. Nodular variant is the most common subtype followed by adenoid variant.  

Conclusion- In neck and head region the most common BCC subtype is nodular variant with nose as the common anatomical site.

Keywords: Morbidity, variant, site, Malignancy, BCC,