Introduction:

The population's and elder peoples´ increment of the quality of life, the integration of all the medical disciplines, health and environmental prevention will lead to achieve a satisfactory longevity.

Objective:

Describing the behavior of cutaneous affections in the adult principal.

Material and methods:

A descriptive, retrospective study was conducted on the behavior of cutaneous disorders in elderly patients, seen in the Dermatology clinic in the Héroes del Moncada teaching polyclinic in the municipality of Cárdenas in the period corresponding to the years 2015 and 2016. The sample It was constituted by 707 patients attended in consultation for cutaneous affections, in the period studied. To obtain the data, the charge sheets of the statistics department were reviewed.

Results:

In the patients attended the male sex prevailed in the elderly, the most frequent conditions diagnosed were superficial mycoses, malignant tumors and precancerous lesions and more than one condition was detected in the same patient.

Conclusions:

Them dermatosis in adult frequent music demands counselling, fundamentally in the masculine sex.

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