Skin Tumours in and Around Aligarh (A Clinicopathological Study)*

Abstract

One hundred twentyfour casses of skin tumours treated at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh were reviewed. Sixty cases had malignant tumours and the remaining 64 benign tumours, Squamous cell carcinoma was the commonest malignant tumour (70.0 percent). The others were basal cell carcinoma (18.4 percent), melanoma (8.3 percent) and metastatic carcinoma (3.3 percent). Skin malignancy constituted 8.19 percent of all malignant growths diagnosed histopathologically.