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Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction
Oral melanoma (OM) is a rare, malignant neoplasm of melanocytic origin. It accounts for 0.2 - 8% of all melanomas. In contrast to its cutaneous counterpart, OM has poor prognosis, possibly due to late clinical diagnosis, nonexistence of standardized clinical or histopathological grading and anatomic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529586 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.84510 |
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author | Palanivelu, Sivakumar Jayanthi, P Rao, Umadevi K Joshua, Elizabeth Ranganathan, K |
author_facet | Palanivelu, Sivakumar Jayanthi, P Rao, Umadevi K Joshua, Elizabeth Ranganathan, K |
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description | Oral melanoma (OM) is a rare, malignant neoplasm of melanocytic origin. It accounts for 0.2 - 8% of all melanomas. In contrast to its cutaneous counterpart, OM has poor prognosis, possibly due to late clinical diagnosis, nonexistence of standardized clinical or histopathological grading and anatomical limitation in complete excision of the lesion. For better understanding of the lesion, case reports are still considered to be the source of information. Here we present a case of oral primary melanoma occurring in an uncommon site, the mandibular gingiva, with review of related literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-33297012012-04-23 Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction Palanivelu, Sivakumar Jayanthi, P Rao, Umadevi K Joshua, Elizabeth Ranganathan, K J Oral Maxillofac Pathol Case Report Oral melanoma (OM) is a rare, malignant neoplasm of melanocytic origin. It accounts for 0.2 - 8% of all melanomas. In contrast to its cutaneous counterpart, OM has poor prognosis, possibly due to late clinical diagnosis, nonexistence of standardized clinical or histopathological grading and anatomical limitation in complete excision of the lesion. For better understanding of the lesion, case reports are still considered to be the source of information. Here we present a case of oral primary melanoma occurring in an uncommon site, the mandibular gingiva, with review of related literature. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3329701/ /pubmed/22529586 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.84510 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Palanivelu, Sivakumar Jayanthi, P Rao, Umadevi K Joshua, Elizabeth Ranganathan, K Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction |
title | Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction |
title_full | Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction |
title_fullStr | Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction |
title_full_unstemmed | Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction |
title_short | Rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction |
title_sort | rapidly enlarging mass following dental extraction |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529586 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.84510 |
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