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Incidental Skin Cancer Detection in a Hospital Department: A Prospective Study
Evaluación de la tasa de detección incidental de cáncer cutáneo: estudio prospectivo en un servicio hospitalario
A. Vila-Payeras
, C. Domínguez-Mahamud, A. Solà-Truyols, C. Nadal, R. Taberner
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Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario Son Llàtzer (HUSLL), Institut d’Investigació Sanitària de les Illes Balears (IdISBa), Palma, Spain
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The bars show the frequency in percentage of detection of the lesion according to whether it was by the patient, dermatologist, family physician or family members.</p>" ] ] ] "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Introduction</span><p id="par0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Dermatologic disease is one of the main reasons for primary care (PC) visits, accounting for approximately between 7% and 8% of all visits, making it the 6th or 7th most frequent specialization seen in PC.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0005"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Family physicians, therefore have a major role to play in the evaluation of their patients’ skin problems and referral to the dermatologist when necessary.</p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In particular, consultations relating to skin cancer, due to its high prevalence, are a frequent reason for referral. According to the meta-analysis by Tejera-Vaquerizo et al,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> the raw global rates of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and melanoma in Spain were 113.05, 38.16, and 8.82 per 100,000 persons per year, respectively.</p><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite the increasing use of dermatoscopy in PC, the appropriate training is not always available. When this is added to the fact that lesions may be asymptomatic or with little clinical expression, they may be missed by the patients themselves, their family members, and even health care professionals.</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">At the same time, dermatologists may have the feeling that we diagnose malignant skin tumors “accidentally” in patients referred to us for other reasons, with no relation to the reason for the consultation. The main objective of this study, therefore, was to determine the proportion of “incidental” diagnoses of skin cancer in patients referred for other reasons, and to compare the clinical, demographic, and epidemiological differences with patients referred with that diagnosis.</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">Materials and Methods</span><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We performed a cross-sectional, prospective, descriptive observational study of all skin cancers diagnosed in referred patients on the first visit to the dermatology department of Hospital Universitario Son Llàtzer between February 1, 2018 and January 31, 2019. The study recorded the study variables in a database of anonymized and dissociated data. The study was approved by the research ethics committee of the Balearic Islands.</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A total of 8 dermatologists took part in the study. All 8 were attached to the department according to their usual clinical practice and therefore carried out skin examinations oriented toward the reason for the consultation but which might vary depending on the dermatologist responsible, the age of the patient, and/or the patients personal and family history, but without any established protocol that included a full examination of all patients. This study only included melanoma, BCC, SCC, keratoacanthoma and Bowen disease; other types of skin cancer were excluded from the analysis because they are rare, such as Merkel cell carcinoma, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, cutaneous metastases, and porocarcinoma.</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study’s main variable was the manner in which the skin cancer was diagnosed: if it was diagnosed by the physician who referred the patient for evaluation by the dermatologist, it was classified in the “reason for consultation” group; if it was diagnosed during the dermatology examination carried out due to another diagnosis in the initial visit, it was classified in the “incidental” group.</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The other variables recorded were date of consultation (day/month/year), gender (male or female), age (continuous variable in years), skin Fitzpatrick type (I-VI, with subsequent categorization into light Fitzpatrick types I-III vs. dark Fitzpatrick types IV-VI), prior personal history of skin cancer (yes vs. no), referral priority (urgent, preferent, or normal), who first observed the lesion (patient, family member, family doctor, or other health care professional), time since onset (continuous variable in months, with subsequent categorization into more or less than 6 months), location (head/neck, upper and lower extremities, back and, anterior torso), size (continuous variable in cm, with subsequent categorization into greater or smaller than 1 cm and greater than 2 cm), suspected diagnosis of referring physician, symptoms (pruritus, bleeding, ulceration, pain), and final diagnosis (melanoma, BCC, SCC, keratoacanthoma, or Bowen disease). Although diagnosis was confirmed by histology in the vast majority of cases, in some superficial BCC, the diagnosis was clinical and dermatoscopic.</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A descriptive analysis of all the data was performed (frequency and percentage of the qualitative variables, centralization and dispersion measures of the quantitative variables) and descriptive study of all the variables analyzed in these groups and a statistical analysis of the distribution differences of those variables according to the defined groups were then performed. To this end, the Pearson χ<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> test was used and statistical significance was set at <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span> < .05. The SPSS statistical package, v. 23 was used.</p></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0065">Results</span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Overall Analysis of Patients Diagnosed With Skin Cancer</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A total of 433 patients were included in the analysis, with a slight predominance of women (222/433, 51.3%) and a median age of 71 years (range, 26-101 years). The most common Fitzpatrick skin type was type II (46.9%), followed by type III (44.6%), IV (7.4%), V (0.9%), and just 1 patient with Fitzpatrick type VI (0.2%). A total of 27.7% (120/433) presented a past history of skin cancer (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>).</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">BCC was the most frequently diagnosed tumor, at 68.3% (296/433) of cases, followed by SCC with 12.2%, (53/433), Bowen disease with 7.4% (32/433), melanoma with 7.4% (32/433), and keratoacanthoma with 4.6% (20/433) (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig. 1</a>).</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In terms of clinical signs and symptoms, 63.27% (274/433) of the lesions were asymptomatic, with no pruritus, bleeding, ulceration, or pain. However, 28.4% (123/433) of patients reported bleeding on at least one occasion, 27.9% (121/433) reported ulceration, 21.5% (93/433) reported pruritus, and 7.6% (33/433) reported pain.</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Time since onset was longer than 6 months in 62.4% (270/433) of cases and only 1.6% of lesions had appeared less than 1 month earlier. With regard to location, 62.8% (272/433) of the lesions were on the head and neck, 12% (52/433) on the back, 10.9% (47/433) on the upper extremities, 8.08% (35/433) on the anterior torso, and 6.23% (27/433) on the lower extremities (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig. 2</a>). In terms of size, 52.9% (229/433) of the lesions measured less than 1 cm and 12% (52/433) exceeded 2 cm.</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With regard to who first observed the lesion, in 57% (247/433) of cases, it was the patient, followed by the dermatologist in 23.3% (101/433) of cases, the family physician in 11.1% (48/433) of cases, a family member in 8.5% (37/433) of cases, and other physicians in last place, with 2.07% (9/433) of cases (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0015">Fig. 3</a>). A total of 25.9% (112/433) of the malignant skin tumors diagnosed were not linked to the reason for which the patients had been referred to the dermatologist, i.e., the referral form made no mention of this suspicion; these were therefore considered to be an incidental diagnosis (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0020">Fig. 4</a>).</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0020"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Comparative Analysis of Patients Diagnosed With Skin Cancer by Reason for Referral</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">No differences were observed between the 2 groups in terms of sex or personal history of skin cancer. The mean age for the reason-for-referral group was 70 ± 0.4 years (range, 26-101 years), slightly higher than in the incidental group, which was 68 ± 0.6 years (range, 30-67 years). No significant differences were detected in terms of Fitzpatrick skin types.</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With regard to detection of the lesion, significant differences were found (<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span> ≤ .05); the lesion was detected slightly more often by the dermatologist in the incidental group and by the patient in the reason-for-referral group. In this variable, the data were distributed as follows: in the incidental group, in 70% (79/112) of cases, the dermatologies was the main person responsible, followed by the patient in 24.1% (27/112) of cases, and family members in 3.6% (2/112) of cases. In the reason-for-referral group, however, the patient was the main person responsible for detecting the lesion in 68.5% (220/321) of cases, followed by the family physician in 14.3% (46/321) of cases and a considerable percentage of family members, at 10.3% (33/321) of cases.</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Significant differences (<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span> < .05) were also found in time since onset (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig. 5</a>A), location of lesions in visible areas 5B), and size (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig. 5</a>C). No between-group differences were found in terms of symptoms of pruritus, pain, ulceration, or bleeding.</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0025"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally, BCC was the most frequently diagnosed skin tumor in both the reason-for-referral group and the incidental group, with 64.8% (208/321) and 78.6% (88/112), respectively. In both groups, SCC was the second most commonly diagnosed tumor, with 15.3% (49/321) and 3.6% (4/112) in the reason-for-referral and incidental groups, respectively (<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0025">Fig. 5</a>D). Melanoma accounted for 9.8% (11/112) of tumors diagnosed in the incidental group compared to 6.5% (21/321) in the reason-for-referral group.</p></span></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0080">Discussion</span><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">To our knowledge, this is the first study of this type carried out in Spain. A notable finding is that approximately 1 out of every 4 (25.9%) patients diagnosed with skin cancer in the dermatology consultation had been referred for another reason (incidental diagnosis) and the tumor was not linked to the reason indicated in the referral by the referring physician. This result differs from that obtained in the study by Viola et al.,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> which analyzed lesions individually (not by patient, as in our study) of the total number of visits referred to dermatology due to suspected malignant lesions and found 40.9% of malignant skin tumors diagnosed incidentally. The results of that study are therefore not comparable to those of our study, as, although those authors detected a total of 149 malignant lesions in 98 patients, with 40.9% (61/149) of incidental lesions, we must take into account the fact that if the lesions had been counted individually by patient, the percentage would be smaller, as many of those patients presented multiple lesions. It should also be noted that the study by Kingsley-Loso et al.,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0020"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> which analyzed 2257 patients who presented a total of 3328 incidental biopsied lesions over a period of 8 years and 3 months. The results of that study indicated that 50.8% of histologically confirmed incidental lesions were malignant skin tumors, with 6.9% of incidental malignant skin tumors confirmed by biopsy individually for each patient.</p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The mean age of approximately 70 years and the predominance of clear Fitzpatrick skin types are factors that may predispose to a higher risk of developing skin cancer, despite the fact that only 27.7% had a personal history of skin cancer.</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With regard to detection of the lesions, the results place the dermatologists as the main person involved in 70% of incidental findings, highlighting the importance of complete physical skin examinations in the consultation, regardless of the reason for referral and especially when the patient has a personal history of skin cancer. This fact agrees with the study by Oliveria et al.,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0025"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> which found that dermatologists had a higher rate of detection of skin cancer compared to PC physicians and internal-medicine specialists.</p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Furthermore, in our study, the patient was aware of the presence of the lesion in only 24% of the incidental skin tumors. This fact highlights the need to promote skin-cancer detection campaigns, aimed at patients and family members, with the aim of achieving early diagnosis. Moreover, the studies show that screening for skin cancer is associated with lower mortality and better long-term results.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> However, factors such as the low priority given to preventing skin cancer in PC and/or the low rate of detection of malignant lesions may make this process more difficult.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> Other factors such as the short amount of time in PC consultations and the presence of other patient comorbidities also contribute to this.</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With regard to the different types of skin cancer, as in other studies,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3,8</span></a> BCC was the most frequently diagnosed tumor and melanoma the least frequently diagnosed, accounting for 9.8% of incidental diagnoses in our series—a value that coincides with the results obtained by Viola et al.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Nevertheless, some studies have found different results, such as that by Cherian et al.,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> which performed a retrospective analysis over 12 months of complete skin examinations compared to those oriented only toward the reason for referral. In that study, the results indicated that of the total of 94 melanomas, 60.6% (57/94) were diagnosed incidentally and most of them (71.9%) were in situ melanomas.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> Moreover, another study confirmed that greater access to the dermatologist (defined as 1 additional dermatologist per 10,000 inhabitants) was associated with a 39% increase in melanomas diagnosed in the initial stages.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a> All these results show again the benefits and results of good screening for skin cancer.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a></p><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Looking at both comparison groups, we found that the incidental group had a higher percentage of BCC (78.6% compared to 64.8% in the reason-for-referral group) and a smaller percentage of SCC and melanoma. This is probably due to the fact that dermatologists have greater experience in diagnosing BCC, which may go unnoticed by other non-dermatologist physicians, as the lesions are sometimes less clinically expressive, unlike squamous cell carcinoma or melanoma, which are usually fast-growing lesions or lesions with clinical alarm signs that lead patients to visit the physician because of them.</p><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The data in our study show that 66.4% of the tumors for which patients were referred were located predominantly on the head and neck, revealing a tendency also observed in other studies<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0015"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3,8</span></a> to consult due to lesions located in easily visible areas. On the other hand, in the incidental group, tumors had a greater tendency to be located in nonvisible areas, such as the back.</p><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It was also observed that, in the incidental group, a greater percentage of the lesions (51% compared to 33% of those that were the reason for the referral) showed a time since onset of less than 6 months and were also smaller, probably due to the fact that patients tend to consult a physician due to larger lesions and smaller lesions tend to go unnoticed. In those diagnosed by the dermatologist alone, however, it was not possible to determine the time since onset. Moreover, the delay between the referral and the visit to the specialist may have contributed to the fact that the skin tumors diagnosed in the reason-for-referral group showed a greater time since onset than the other group.</p><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Also of interest, though with a different objective than our study, is a study by Tejera et al.,<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> in which 22.7% of patients presented an additional reason for consultation, where eczema was the most common, at 17.2%, followed by alopecia at 11.5%, and evaluation of melanocytic nevus at 10.3%. Surprisingly, in that study, only 2.3% of patients requested additional evaluation of BCC.</p><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Finally, it should be mentioned that this study was carried out based on the routine clinical practice of each dermatologist, and no special and/or more detailed skin examinations were carried out because it was an observational study. In this regard, the study carried out by Helm et al.<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a> is worth mentioning. In that study, those authors propose an outline for performing complete skin examinations in an orderly manner, with the goal of improving efficiency and thus reducing the probability of missing a part of the body.</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0085">Conclusions</span><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Skin cancer is a common cause for referral to dermatology. The high rate of skin cancer diagnosed incidentally by the dermatologist highlights the need to carry out thorough examinations of our patients to facilitate early detection and treatment. This fact also highlights the importance of promoting skin-cancer prevention programs and greater training of PC professionals in detecting this type of lesion and in the use of the dermatoscope.</p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0090">Conflicts of Interest</span><p id="par0150" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest and that no funding was required for this study.</p></span></span>" "textoCompletoSecciones" => array:1 [ "secciones" => array:12 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "xres1374648" "titulo" => "Abstract" "secciones" => array:3 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0005" "titulo" => "Background and objectives" ] 1 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0010" "titulo" => "Results" ] 2 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0015" "titulo" => "Conclusions" ] ] ] 1 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "xpalclavsec1262787" "titulo" => "Keywords" ] 2 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "xres1374649" "titulo" => "Resumen" "secciones" => array:3 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0020" "titulo" => "Antecedentes y objetivo" ] 1 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0025" "titulo" => "Resultados" ] 2 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0030" "titulo" => "Conclusiones" ] ] ] 3 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "xpalclavsec1262788" "titulo" => "Palabras clave" ] 4 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0005" "titulo" => "Introduction" ] 5 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0010" "titulo" => "Materials and Methods" ] 6 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "sec0015" "titulo" => "Results" "secciones" => array:2 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0020" "titulo" => "Overall Analysis of Patients Diagnosed With Skin Cancer" ] 1 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0025" "titulo" => "Comparative Analysis of Patients Diagnosed With Skin Cancer by Reason for Referral" ] ] ] 7 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0030" "titulo" => "Discussion" ] 8 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0035" "titulo" => "Conclusions" ] 9 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "sec0040" "titulo" => "Conflicts of Interest" ] 10 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "xack477563" "titulo" => "Acknowledgments" ] 11 => array:1 [ "titulo" => "References" ] ] ] "pdfFichero" => "main.pdf" "tienePdf" => true "fechaRecibido" => "2019-11-27" "fechaAceptado" => "2020-04-21" "PalabrasClave" => array:2 [ "en" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "clase" => "keyword" "titulo" => "Keywords" "identificador" => "xpalclavsec1262787" "palabras" => array:5 [ 0 => "Skin cancer" 1 => "Melanoma" 2 => "Diagnosis" 3 => "Incidental" 4 => "Epidemiology" ] ] ] "es" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "clase" => "keyword" "titulo" => "Palabras clave" "identificador" => "xpalclavsec1262788" "palabras" => array:6 [ 0 => "Cáncer de piel" 1 => "Melanoma" 2 => "Diagnóstico" 3 => "Dermatología" 4 => "Incidental" 5 => "Epidemiología" ] ] ] ] "tieneResumen" => true "resumen" => array:2 [ "en" => array:3 [ "titulo" => "Abstract" "resumen" => "<span id="abst0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Background and objectives</span><p id="spar0035" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Skin cancer is a common cause for referral to dermatology, but it may also be an incidental finding during examination of patients referred for other reasons. The objective of the study was to compare the characteristics of skin cancer lesions (squamous skin carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, melanoma) diagnosed at a dermatology department over 1 year between patients referred for suspected skin cancer and those referred for another reason but in whom skin cancer was detected as an incidental finding. Pearson’s χ<span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span> test was used to compare different study variables between the 2 groups.</p></span> <span id="abst0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0015">Results</span><p id="spar0040" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Data were collected from 433 patients with a mean age of 72 years; 233 (51.3%) of the patients were female. The most common skin types were Fitzpatrick types II and III. Basal cell carcinoma was the most frequent cancer in all the analyses and accounted for 68.4% of all cancers diagnosed (296/433). Twenty-six percent of the malignant skin tumors were detected incidentally. Statistical analysis revealed that these tumors tended to be located in nonvisible areas and were smaller and of more recent onset than tumors initially suspected to be malignant.</p></span> <span id="abst0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0020">Conclusions</span><p id="spar0045" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">The high rate of skin cancer diagnosed incidentally by dermatologists highlights the need to carry out thorough examinations of patients in order to facilitate early detection and treatment.</p></span>" "secciones" => array:3 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0005" "titulo" => "Background and objectives" ] 1 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0010" "titulo" => "Results" ] 2 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0015" "titulo" => "Conclusions" ] ] ] "es" => array:3 [ "titulo" => "Resumen" "resumen" => "<span id="abst0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0030">Antecedentes y objetivo</span><p id="spar0050" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">El cáncer de piel es un motivo frecuente de derivación a dermatología, pero también puede ser un hallazgo incidental durante la exploración por otro motivo de consulta. El objetivo del estudio fue comparar las características de las lesiones diagnosticadas de un cáncer cutáneo de forma incidental y compararlas con aquellas que constituían el motivo de derivación con pacientes diagnosticados de cáncer de piel (carcinoma espinocelular, carcinoma basocelular y melanoma) durante un año en una consulta de dermatología. Se recogieron diferentes variables y se realizó el análisis estadístico mediante la prueba de la Ji cuadrado de Pearson comparando el grupo en el que el diagnóstico era el motivo de derivación frente al grupo en el que el diagnóstico fue hallazgo incidental.</p></span> <span id="abst0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0035">Resultados</span><p id="spar0055" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Se recogieron datos de 433 pacientes, con una mediana de edadde 72 años, con 233 (51,3%) pacientes del sexo femenino y un predominio de fototipos II y III. El carcinoma basocelular fue en todos los análisis la neoplasia más frecuente, representando un 68,4% (296/433). Un 26% de los tumores cutáneos malignos diagnosticados no estaban relacionadas con el motivo de derivación. El análisis estadístico demostró que las diagnosticadas de forma incidental estaban localizadas en zonas no visibles, tenían un menor tamaño y menor tiempo de evolución.</p></span> <span id="abst0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Conclusiones</span><p id="spar0060" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">La alta tasa de cáncer de piel diagnosticado de forma incidental por el dermatólogo resalta la necesidad de realizar exploraciones exhaustivas a nuestros pacientes para facilitar la detección temprana y el tratamiento precoz.</p></span>" "secciones" => array:3 [ 0 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0020" "titulo" => "Antecedentes y objetivo" ] 1 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0025" "titulo" => "Resultados" ] 2 => array:2 [ "identificador" => "abst0030" "titulo" => "Conclusiones" ] ] ] ] "NotaPie" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "etiqueta" => "☆" "nota" => "<p class="elsevierStyleNotepara" id="npar0005">Please cite this article as: Vila-Payeras A, Domínguez C, Solà A, Nadal C, Taberner R. Evaluación de la tasa de detección incidental de cáncer cutáneo: estudio prospectivo en un servicio hospitalario. Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2020;111:496–502.</p>" ] ] "multimedia" => array:6 [ 0 => array:8 [ "identificador" => "fig0005" "etiqueta" => "Figure 1" "tipo" => "MULTIMEDIAFIGURA" "mostrarFloat" => true "mostrarDisplay" => false "figura" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "imagen" => "gr1.jpeg" "Alto" => 1354 "Ancho" => 2104 "Tamanyo" => 136863 ] ] "detalles" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "at0005" "detalle" => "Figure " "rol" => "short" ] ] "descripcion" => array:1 [ "en" => "<p id="spar0005" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Distribution of the types of skin cancer diagnosed. The sector graphs show the frequency in percentage of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, Bowen disease, keratoacanthoma, and malignant melanoma out of the total number of patients.</p>" ] ] 1 => array:8 [ "identificador" => "fig0010" "etiqueta" => "Figure 2" "tipo" => "MULTIMEDIAFIGURA" "mostrarFloat" => true "mostrarDisplay" => false "figura" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "imagen" => "gr2.jpeg" "Alto" => 1250 "Ancho" => 2104 "Tamanyo" => 163522 ] ] "detalles" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "at0010" "detalle" => "Figure " "rol" => "short" ] ] "descripcion" => array:1 [ "en" => "<p id="spar0010" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Distribution of the location of cases of skin cancer detected. The sector graph shows the frequency in percentage of location on the head and neck, upper extremities, lower extremities, back and anterior torso out of the total number of patients.</p>" ] ] 2 => array:8 [ "identificador" => "fig0015" "etiqueta" => "Figure 3" "tipo" => "MULTIMEDIAFIGURA" "mostrarFloat" => true "mostrarDisplay" => false "figura" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "imagen" => "gr3.jpeg" "Alto" => 945 "Ancho" => 1514 "Tamanyo" => 55145 ] ] "detalles" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "at0015" "detalle" => "Figure " "rol" => "short" ] ] "descripcion" => array:1 [ "en" => "<p id="spar0015" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Distribution in percentage of detection of the lesion. The bars show the frequency in percentage of detection of the lesion according to whether it was by the patient, dermatologist, family physician or family members.</p>" ] ] 3 => array:8 [ "identificador" => "fig0020" "etiqueta" => "Figure 4" "tipo" => "MULTIMEDIAFIGURA" "mostrarFloat" => true "mostrarDisplay" => false "figura" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "imagen" => "gr4.jpeg" "Alto" => 772 "Ancho" => 1514 "Tamanyo" => 42334 ] ] "detalles" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "at0020" "detalle" => "Figure " "rol" => "short" ] ] "descripcion" => array:1 [ "en" => "<p id="spar0020" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Percentage of incidental diagnosis of skin cancer. The sector graph shows the frequency in percentage of skin cancer diagnosed incidentally and when it was the reason for referral.</p>" ] ] 4 => array:8 [ "identificador" => "fig0025" "etiqueta" => "Figure 5" "tipo" => "MULTIMEDIAFIGURA" "mostrarFloat" => true "mostrarDisplay" => false "figura" => array:1 [ 0 => array:4 [ "imagen" => "gr5.jpeg" "Alto" => 1604 "Ancho" => 2382 "Tamanyo" => 142402 ] ] "detalles" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "at0025" "detalle" => "Figure " "rol" => "short" ] ] "descripcion" => array:1 [ "en" => "<p id="spar0025" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">Characteristics of the lesions by reason for consultation. A) Time since onset of lesion. B) Location of lesion. C) Size of lesion. D) Type of lesion. The χ<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0010"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> statistical test was performed to compare the reason-for-referral group with the incidental group (*<span class="elsevierStyleItalic">P</span> < .05 when analyzing both groups).</p>" ] ] 5 => array:8 [ "identificador" => "tbl0005" "etiqueta" => "Table 1" "tipo" => "MULTIMEDIATABLA" "mostrarFloat" => true "mostrarDisplay" => false "detalles" => array:1 [ 0 => array:3 [ "identificador" => "at0030" "detalle" => "Table " "rol" => "short" ] ] "tabla" => array:1 [ "tablatextoimagen" => array:1 [ 0 => array:2 [ "tabla" => array:1 [ 0 => """ <table border="0" frame="\n \t\t\t\t\tvoid\n \t\t\t\t" class=""><tbody title="tbody"><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t ; entry_with_role_rowhead " colspan="2" align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">[0,1,2]Total number of patients</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">437 \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t ; entry_with_role_rowhead " colspan="2" align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">[0,1,2]Age, x ± SD (range)</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">70 ± 0.6 (26-101) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t ; entry_with_role_rowhead " colspan="2" align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">[0,1,2]Sociodemographic variables</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">n (%) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t ; entry_with_role_rowhead " rowspan="2" align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">[1,0]Sex</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">Female \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">222 (51.3) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">Male \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">211 (48.7) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t ; entry_with_role_rowhead " rowspan="5" align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">[4,0]Fitzpatrick type</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">II \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">203 (46.9) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">III \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">193 (44.6) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">IV \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">32 (7.4) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">V \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">4 (0.9) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">VI \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">1 (0.2) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t ; entry_with_role_rowhead " rowspan="2" align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">[1,0]History of skin cancer</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">Yes \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">120 (27.7) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">No \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="\n \t\t\t\t\ttable-entry\n \t\t\t\t " align="left" valign="\n \t\t\t\t\ttop\n \t\t\t\t">313 (72.3) \t\t\t\t\t\t\n \t\t\t\t</td></tr></tbody></table> """ ] "imagenFichero" => array:1 [ 0 => "xTab2360309.png" ] ] ] ] "descripcion" => array:1 [ "en" => "<p id="spar0030" class="elsevierStyleSimplePara elsevierViewall">General Characteristics of Patients Diagnosed With Skin Cancer. 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