Table 1.
Clinical features and outcomes summary of the patients who underwent reconstructive surgery with dermal substitutes in AC Camargo Cancer Center, from 2012 to 2016 (M = male, F = female, EC = eccrine carcinoma, DFSP = dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, BCC = basal cell carcinoma, SCC = squamous cell carcinoma, MMis = malignant melanoma in situ, STSG = split-thickness skin graft, N/A = not available, and ∗ size according to pathology reports, without considering further excisions after frozen section when needed).
| Patient | Age | Sex | Abnormality | Tumor location | Size (cm) | Comorbidity | Dressing | Complications after 1st surgery | Application of STSG (days) | Complications after 2nd surgery | Follow-up |
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| 1 | 64 | M | EC | Scalp | 20,5 × 20 | Hypothyroidism Heart disease Rheumatoid arthritis |
Brown | Wound secretion/debridement | 28 | Partial graft loss | Death |
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| 2 | 56 | M | DFSP | Scalp | 14 × 13 | High blood pressure Obesity Former smoking |
Vacuum | Wound secretion | 50 | — | No recurrence |
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| 3 | 84 | F | BCC sclerodermiform | Lower limbs | 13,8 × 8,6 | Heart disease Former smoking Alzheimer's disease |
Brown | — | 29 | — | No recurrence |
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| 4 | 51 | M | BCC sclerodermiform | Scalp | N/A | — | Vacuum | Wound secretion | 50 | — | Parotid metastasis In transit disease |
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| 5 | 56 | M | BCC sclerodermiform | Nose | 5 × 4,5 | High blood pressure Smoking |
Brown | Wound secretion | 57 | Partial graft loss | Lost |
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| 6 | 65 | M | MMis | Digital | 3,5 × 2,5 | Former smoking Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases |
Brown | — | Unnecessary | — | Lost |
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| 7 | 75 | M | BCC sclerodermiform | Scalp | 8 × 5 | High blood pressure Former smoking |
Vacuum | — | 41 | — | Recurrence at 20 months |
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| 8 | 50 | F | DFSP | Scalp | 7 × 5,5 | — | Brown | Wound secretion | 35 | — | Lost |
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| 9 | 77 | F | Radionecrosis | Lower limbs | N/A | High blood pressure Heart disease Hypothyroidism |
Vacuum | Slow granulation | Not grafted | — | No recurrence |
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| 10 | 41 | F | MMis | Digital | 3 × 3 | Hypothyroidism | Brown | — | 50 | — | No recurrence |
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| 11 | 39 | F | SCC | Lower limbs | 13 × 6 | High blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis | Vacuum | — | 36 | — | No recurrence |
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| 12 | 70 | M | Angiosarcoma | Scalp | 5,2 × 4,5 | Parkinson's disease | Vacuum | — | 43 | — | No recurrence |
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| 13 | 86 | F | BCC sclerodermiform | Scalp | 12 × 12 | High blood pressure Heart disease Diabetes mellitus Renal chronic failure |
Vacuum | — | 64 | — | No recurrence |
M = male, F = female, EC = eccrine carcinoma, DFSP = dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, BCC = basal cell carcinoma, SCC = squamous cell carcinoma, MMis = malignant melanoma in situ, STSG = split-thickness skin graft, and N/A = not available.