Carcinoma of the Pinna

Abstract
CARCINOMA of the pinna as a disease of surgical importance has received little attention in the American literature. It represents about 5 per cent of all skin cancers,1 2 3 7 per cent of epitheliomas of the head and neck3 , 4 and 25 to 33 per cent of epidermoid carcinomas of the head.4 , 5 More than half the lesions of the pinna are epidermoid carcinomas, and of these 8 to 15 per cent metastasize to the regional lymph nodes.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Surgery,4 , 8 irradiation,1 , 2 , 6 various dermatologic technics3 and "chemosurgery"7 are reported to have produced three-year "cure rates" of 60.0 to 82.5 per cent, when estimated according to . . .

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: