Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited

Mucosal melanoma of the oral cavity is a rare but highly aggressive neoplasm. However, the clinicians need to be aware of the other and more frequent etiologies of intraoral pigmentation, such as amalgam tattoos. As amalgam has been extensively used for dental restorations and can cause pigmentation...

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Autores principales: Lundin, K., Schmidt, G., Bonde, C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23533829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/787294
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description Mucosal melanoma of the oral cavity is a rare but highly aggressive neoplasm. However, the clinicians need to be aware of the other and more frequent etiologies of intraoral pigmentation, such as amalgam tattoos. As amalgam has been extensively used for dental restorations and can cause pigmentations in the oral mucosa, this is a differential diagnosis not to be forgotten. We describe the characteristics of these two phenomena and present a case vignette illustrating the differential diagnostic issues. Other causes of intraoral pigmentation are summarized.
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spelling pubmed-36067452013-03-26 Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited Lundin, K. Schmidt, G. Bonde, C. Case Rep Dent Case Report Mucosal melanoma of the oral cavity is a rare but highly aggressive neoplasm. However, the clinicians need to be aware of the other and more frequent etiologies of intraoral pigmentation, such as amalgam tattoos. As amalgam has been extensively used for dental restorations and can cause pigmentations in the oral mucosa, this is a differential diagnosis not to be forgotten. We describe the characteristics of these two phenomena and present a case vignette illustrating the differential diagnostic issues. Other causes of intraoral pigmentation are summarized. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3606745/ /pubmed/23533829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/787294 Text en Copyright © 2013 K. Lundin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited
title Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited
title_full Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited
title_fullStr Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited
title_full_unstemmed Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited
title_short Amalgam Tattoo Mimicking Mucosal Melanoma: A Diagnostic Dilemma Revisited
title_sort amalgam tattoo mimicking mucosal melanoma: a diagnostic dilemma revisited
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23533829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/787294
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