Method: Two hundred and nine patients who were diagnosed with precancerous lesions and referred to the dermatology department of Imam Reza hospital from 1997 to 2007 were studied. Study parameters included participants’ age, sex and occupation, type of precancerous skin lesion, clinicopathological type of the lesion and location. The data was collected from the patients’ records in the dermatol...

*Corresponding author: Sasan Andalib. Neurosciences Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +984133340730 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and repro...

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