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Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature
Mucosal malignant melanoma arising from the head and neck region is a rare entity, and it is more aggressive than cutaneous melanoma. Furthermore, the complexity of the oral cavity makes surgical excision more difficult. Oral malignant melanoma is a rare tumour of melanocytic origin, accounting for...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082064 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_73_22 |
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author | Sinha, Pooja Jayaswal, Amrita Sinha, Abhishek Jaiswal, Rohit |
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description | Mucosal malignant melanoma arising from the head and neck region is a rare entity, and it is more aggressive than cutaneous melanoma. Furthermore, the complexity of the oral cavity makes surgical excision more difficult. Oral malignant melanoma is a rare tumour of melanocytic origin, accounting for 20–30% of malignant melanomas at the mucosal surface and 16% intra-orally. Hard palate and maxillary gingiva are the most common involved sites. The age of reported patients ranges from 20 years to 80 years. Hence, we do hereby present a case of malignant melanoma of mandibular gingiva with review of the literature in a 42-year-old female patient. |
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spelling | pubmed-101120712023-04-19 Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature Sinha, Pooja Jayaswal, Amrita Sinha, Abhishek Jaiswal, Rohit J Oral Maxillofac Pathol Case Report Mucosal malignant melanoma arising from the head and neck region is a rare entity, and it is more aggressive than cutaneous melanoma. Furthermore, the complexity of the oral cavity makes surgical excision more difficult. Oral malignant melanoma is a rare tumour of melanocytic origin, accounting for 20–30% of malignant melanomas at the mucosal surface and 16% intra-orally. Hard palate and maxillary gingiva are the most common involved sites. The age of reported patients ranges from 20 years to 80 years. Hence, we do hereby present a case of malignant melanoma of mandibular gingiva with review of the literature in a 42-year-old female patient. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10112071/ /pubmed/37082064 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_73_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Sinha, Pooja Jayaswal, Amrita Sinha, Abhishek Jaiswal, Rohit Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature |
title | Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature |
title_full | Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature |
title_fullStr | Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature |
title_short | Malignant melanoma of gingiva: Case report and review of the literature |
title_sort | malignant melanoma of gingiva: case report and review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082064 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_73_22 |
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