Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap
Oral mucosal melanomas are highly malignant tumors. The 'chameleonic' presentation of a mainly asymptomatic condition, the rarity of these lesions, the poor prognosis and the necessity of a highly specialized treatment are factors that should be seriously considered by the involved health...
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author | Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K Kyrmizakis, Dionysios E Drivas, Emmanouil I Koutsopoulos, Anastassios V Malandrakis, Stylianos G Skoulakis, Charalambos E Bizakis, John G |
author_facet | Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K Kyrmizakis, Dionysios E Drivas, Emmanouil I Koutsopoulos, Anastassios V Malandrakis, Stylianos G Skoulakis, Charalambos E Bizakis, John G |
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description | Oral mucosal melanomas are highly malignant tumors. The 'chameleonic' presentation of a mainly asymptomatic condition, the rarity of these lesions, the poor prognosis and the necessity of a highly specialized treatment are factors that should be seriously considered by the involved health provider. We present the case of a 75-year-old man who was referred to the Ear, Nose and Throat department. His symptoms were voice alteration and saliva drooling, progressively worsening during the last few weeks. The absence of pain was the reason for the delay of seeking medical care. The diagnosis was an oversized oral melanoma. This is an example of how the time of diagnosis and the evolution of a disease could be seriously influenced by patient's behavior. Melanomas arising from oral mucosa have poor prognosis unless they are discovered and treated early. The vigilance of the physicians is necessary to have success in this difficult task. |
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spelling | pubmed-14758442006-06-10 Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K Kyrmizakis, Dionysios E Drivas, Emmanouil I Koutsopoulos, Anastassios V Malandrakis, Stylianos G Skoulakis, Charalambos E Bizakis, John G Head Face Med Case Study Oral mucosal melanomas are highly malignant tumors. The 'chameleonic' presentation of a mainly asymptomatic condition, the rarity of these lesions, the poor prognosis and the necessity of a highly specialized treatment are factors that should be seriously considered by the involved health provider. We present the case of a 75-year-old man who was referred to the Ear, Nose and Throat department. His symptoms were voice alteration and saliva drooling, progressively worsening during the last few weeks. The absence of pain was the reason for the delay of seeking medical care. The diagnosis was an oversized oral melanoma. This is an example of how the time of diagnosis and the evolution of a disease could be seriously influenced by patient's behavior. Melanomas arising from oral mucosa have poor prognosis unless they are discovered and treated early. The vigilance of the physicians is necessary to have success in this difficult task. BioMed Central 2006-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1475844/ /pubmed/16569245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-160X-2-7 Text en Copyright © 2006 Symvoulakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Study Symvoulakis, Emmanouil K Kyrmizakis, Dionysios E Drivas, Emmanouil I Koutsopoulos, Anastassios V Malandrakis, Stylianos G Skoulakis, Charalambos E Bizakis, John G Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap |
title | Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap |
title_full | Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap |
title_fullStr | Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap |
title_short | Oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap |
title_sort | oral mucosal melanoma: a malignant trap |
topic | Case Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1475844/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-160X-2-7 |
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