[Diagnostic accuracy in epithelial skin tumors]

Abstract

Between 1967 and 1977 histological diagnosis of 5,238 epithelial skin tumors has been established. 38.6 percent of the material came from dermatologists in practice. The macroscopical diagnosis could be verified in 72.9 percent of the tumors. Highest rates resulted in basalioma, seborrheic keratosis, benign adnexa tumors and precancerous lesions. Clinicians yielded better diagnostic correlation than practitioners. The same was true when the histological diagnosis of epithelial skin tumors was compared with the clinical diagnosis, at a total of 64.5 percent diagnostic correlation.