Inclusion Criteria:

• patients who had been diagnosed with one of the following conditions in the ocular and periocular region: common melanocytic nevus, melanosis, seborrheic keratosis, viral wart, angioma and angiokeratoma, apocrine hydrocystoma, xanthelasma, steatocystoma, actinic keratosis, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who presented with one of the following conditions were excluded from the study: concomitant inflammatory processes, including blepharitis, chalazion, pterygium, pinguecula), coexistence of multiple, periocular or ocular lesions, diagnosis of syndromic diseases related to a major risk for cutaneous neoformations.