Treatment of Pigmented Basal Cell Carcinoma with 3 mm Surgical Margin in Asians

Table 1

Demographics of patients with pigmented and nonpigmented BCCs.

	Pigmented BCC	Nonpigmented BCC	value
Number	105	38
Males/females	53/52	13/25	0.06
Average age (years)	63.9	65.3	0.92
Average tumor diameter (cm)	1.43	1.26	0.244
Follow-up (years)	5.4	4.7	0.289
Location
Scalp	2	2	0.287
Forehead	8	1	0.255
Ear	0	2	0.069
Nose	27	17	0.026
Nasolabial fold	6	4	0.256
Periorbital areas	18	3	0.131
Cheeks	27	6	0.154
Lips	4	0	0.286
Trunk	10	2	0.334
Limbs	3	1	0.713
Recurrence (%)	1/105 (1%)	6/38 (15.8%)	0.001

⁢ value < 0.05.