Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case

Oral malignant melanoma is a rare tumor, accounting 0.8to 1.8 % of all oral malignancies. It occurs most commonly in Japanese and Negros. Radical surgery is mainstay of the treatment. Prognosis is very poor with 5 years survival rate. We present a case of malignant melanoma in a 55 years female, met...

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Autores principales: Ram, Hari, Mohammad, Shadab, Husain, Nuzhat, Devi, Seema, Gupta, Prem Narayan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3304187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22442554
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.69165
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author Ram, Hari
Mohammad, Shadab
Husain, Nuzhat
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description Oral malignant melanoma is a rare tumor, accounting 0.8to 1.8 % of all oral malignancies. It occurs most commonly in Japanese and Negros. Radical surgery is mainstay of the treatment. Prognosis is very poor with 5 years survival rate. We present a case of malignant melanoma in a 55 years female, metastatizing to liver spleen and vertebrae.
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spelling pubmed-33041872012-03-22 Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case Ram, Hari Mohammad, Shadab Husain, Nuzhat Devi, Seema Gupta, Prem Narayan Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Oral malignant melanoma is a rare tumor, accounting 0.8to 1.8 % of all oral malignancies. It occurs most commonly in Japanese and Negros. Radical surgery is mainstay of the treatment. Prognosis is very poor with 5 years survival rate. We present a case of malignant melanoma in a 55 years female, metastatizing to liver spleen and vertebrae. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3304187/ /pubmed/22442554 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.69165 Text en Copyright: © National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case
title Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case
title_full Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case
title_fullStr Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case
title_short Metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: A review of literature and report of an unusual case
title_sort metastatic malignant melanoma of palate: a review of literature and report of an unusual case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3304187/
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