Table 2.

The percentage of TNF-α-positive mast cells and the score of TNFRI and TNFRII positive cells in the upper dermis of the healthy-looking and lesional skin from patients with BCC

	TNF-α (%)	TNFRI (score)	TNFRII (score)
Healthy-looking skin	27.0 ± 9.3	1.1 ± 0.3	1.2 ± 0.4
BCC lesion	36.7 ± 10.2	2.9 ± 0.3	3 ± 0
P value	0.08	<0.001	<0.001

The results are expressed as the mean ± SD (n = 11). The P value was determined according to paired t-test when comparing the values in the lesional skin to corresponding values in the healthy-looking skin