Outpatient surgery of skin and soft tissue lesions: case summary and perspectives on training

Cliniciopathological Spectrum of Skin and Soft Tissue Swellings at a Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore, Pakistan

“…Our study comprised 33.3% male and 66.7% female population indicating more females than males attended the hospital for SSTS surgeries, similar to the study conducted by Duduyemi et al, which revealed that 55.43% of their patients were female [ 1 ]. These results are also in line with those of a Chinese study of 2017 having a greater number of females than males [ 10 ]. Such findings suggest that females are more conscious of their cosmetic appearance and have a readily available facility of healthcare, in contrast to males who are busy with work and attend healthcare facilities in cases of extreme emergencies [ 1 ].…”

“…The most common neoplastic and non-inflammatory lesions in this study were nevus (16.7%) followed by AVM, BCC, and SCC, each with 13.3% incidence. The results of this research are consistent with a study conducted by Jie Pan and colleagues in which the most frequent pathological types were nevi (48.96%) and epidermal inclusion cyst (EIC) (11.2%) [10].…”

“…The mean age of presentation in our study was 34.16±17.42 years, similar to the findings of Duduyemi et al, who reported a mean age of 33.52±15.05 years, and a Chinese study in which the mean age of all the patients was 33.5 years [1,10]. We deduce that SSTS are prevalent in young patients in their reproductive ages.…”