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. 2018 Sep 13;5(3):210–219. doi: 10.1159/000491549

Table 3.

Details of patients with malignant tumors of the eyelid

Feature SGC (n = 285) BCC (n = 128) SCC(n = 99) Miscellaneous(n = 24) All cases(n = 536) p value
Age at presentation, years 58 (60, 21–100) 60 (61, 20–88) 55 (55, 8–90) 50 (49, 4–81) 58 (60, 4–100) 0.01**a
Gender
Male 115 (40) 52 (41) 46 (46) 16 (67) 229 (43) 0.47***
Female 170 (60) 76 (59) 53 (54) 8 (33) 307 (57) 0.53***
Tumor epicenter
Upper eyelid 168 (59) 22 (17) 40 (40) 11 (46) 241 (45) <0.001***<, b
Lower eyelid 82 (29) 75 (59) 41 (41) 9 (38) 207 (39) 0.003***c
Medial canthus 9 (3) 13 (10) 5 (5) 3 (13) 30 (6) 0.03***d
Lateral canthus 7 (2) 10 (8) 5 (5) 0 (0) 22 (4) 0.07***
Diffuse 19 (7) 8 (6) 8 (8) 1 (4) 36 (7) 0.92***

Tumor pattern (n = 519)
Nodular 155 (56) 52 (42) 51 (52) 13 (54) 271 (51) 0.52***
Nodulo-ulcerative 88 (31) 63 (51) 40 (40) 5 (21) 196 (37) 0.07***
Papillary 7 (2) 0 (0) 3 (3) 2 (8) 12 (2) 0.07***
Cystic 7 (2) 5 (4) 0 (0) 0 (0) 12 (2) 0.22***
Fungating mass 20 (7) 3 (2) 3 (3) 2 (8) 28 (5) 0.17***
Tumor diameter, mm 18 (14, 1–100) 15 (12, 2–50) 18 (15, 2–60) 19 (14, 1–55) 17 (13, 1–100) 0.46**
Tumor thickness, mm 6 (4, 1–44) 5 (4, 1–28) 8 (4, 1–55) 7 (4, 1–36) 6 (4, 1–55) 0.15**
Tumor extent at presentation
Orbit 35 (12) 8 (6) 16 (16) 7 (29) 66 (12) 0.03***e
Maxillary sinus 4 (1) 1 (<1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 5 (<1) 0.61***
Frontal sinus 2 (<1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (<1) 0.63***
Ethmoid sinus 2 (<1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (<1) 0.63***
Intracranial extension 3 (1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 3 (<1) 0.45***

T classification based on8th edition AJCC staging
T1 104 (37) 49 (38) 26 (26) 8 (33) 187 (35) 0.54***
T2 92 (32) 47 (37) 37 (37) 3 (13) 179 (33) 0.32***
T3 30 (11) 13 (10) 7 (7) 3 (13) 53 (10) 0.80***
T4 59 (21) 19 (15) 29 (29) 10 (42) 117 (22) 0.054***
Primary treatment (n = 518) 275 123 97 23
Wide excision biopsy 218 (79) 116 (94) 74 (76) 16 (70) 424 (82) 0.62***
Orbital exenteration 38 (14) 6 (5) 18 (19) 6 (26) 68 (13) 0.02***,f
Systemic chemotherapy 17 (6) 0 (0) 4 (4) 1 (4) 22 (4) 0.06***
External beam radiotherapy 2 (<1) 1 (<1) 1 (1) 0 (0) 4 (<1) 0.97***
Clinical diagnosis correlating histopathological diagnosis 258 (91) 110 (86) 46 (46) 9 (38) 423 (79) 0.001***,g

Outcome (n = 518)*
Tumor recurrence 60 (21) 4 (3) 8 (8) 3 (13) 75 (14) 0.001***h
Locoregional lymph node metastasis 45 (16) 1 (<1) 8 (8) 6 (26) 60 (12) 0.001***i
Systemic metastasis 35 (13) 0 (0) 4 (4) 3 (13) 42 (8) 0.001***,j
Death due to the disease 24 (9) 0 (0) 4 (4) 0 (0) 28 (5) 0.004***,k
Globe salvage 225 (82) 116 (94) 77 (79) 16 (70) 434 (84) 0.72***
Follow-up period, months 15 (5, <1–185) 29 (11, <1–273) 22 (10, <1–149) 12 (5, <1–83) 19 (7, <1–273) na

Values aren (%) or mean (median, range), as appropriate. SGC, sebaceous gland carcinoma; BCC, basal cell carcinoma; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma;

*

18 patients were lost to follow-up after incision biopsy at presentation;

**

Kruskal-Wallis test;

***

χ2 test; na, not applicable.

a

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC and SCC were significantly different from each other (p = 0.003, Mann-Whitney test).

b

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from SCC (p = 0.004,χ2 test) and SGC (p &amp;amp;amp;lt; 0.001,χ2 test).

c

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from SGC (p &amp;amp;amp;lt; 0.001,χ2 test).

d

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from SGC (p = 0.006,χ2 test).

e

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from miscellaneous tumors (p = 0.003,χ2 test).

f

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from SCC (p = 0.004,χ2 test) and miscellaneous tumors (p = 0.003,χ2 test).

g

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only SCC was significantly different from SGC (p = 0.001,χ2 test) and BCC (p = 0.005,χ2 test).

h

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only SGC was significantly different from BCC (p &amp;amp;amp;lt; 0.001,χ2 test) and SCC (p = 0.012,χ2 test).<

i

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from SGC (p &amp;amp;amp;lt; 0.001,χ2 test), SCC (p = 0.007,χ2 test), and miscellaneous tumors (p &amp;amp;amp;lt; 0.001,χ2 test).

j

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from SGC (p &amp;amp;amp;lt; 0.001,χ2 test) and miscellaneous tumors (p &amp;amp;amp;lt; 0.001,χ2 test).

k

Post hoc analysis with Bonferroni correction showed that only BCC was significantly different from SGC (p = 0.001,χ2 test).