Oral Amelanotic Melanoma of the Maxilla

Amelanotic melanoma is a variant of malignant melanoma comprising 2% to 8% of all malignant melanomas. The amelanotic presentation of melanoma in the oral cavity is extremely rare and has been reported only occasionally in the literature. Moreover, the lack of melanin makes these tumors difficult to...

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Autores principales: Saghravanian, Nasrollah, Pazouki, Mahdi, Zamanzadeh, Maryam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4281196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25628704
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author Saghravanian, Nasrollah
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description Amelanotic melanoma is a variant of malignant melanoma comprising 2% to 8% of all malignant melanomas. The amelanotic presentation of melanoma in the oral cavity is extremely rare and has been reported only occasionally in the literature. Moreover, the lack of melanin makes these tumors difficult to diagnose than that of pigmented lesions and the prognosis tends to be poorer. Herein, we report an amelanotic melanoma involving the oral mucosa of the maxilla in a 27 year-old male.
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spelling pubmed-42811962015-01-27 Oral Amelanotic Melanoma of the Maxilla Saghravanian, Nasrollah Pazouki, Mahdi Zamanzadeh, Maryam J Dent (Tehran) Case Report Amelanotic melanoma is a variant of malignant melanoma comprising 2% to 8% of all malignant melanomas. The amelanotic presentation of melanoma in the oral cavity is extremely rare and has been reported only occasionally in the literature. Moreover, the lack of melanin makes these tumors difficult to diagnose than that of pigmented lesions and the prognosis tends to be poorer. Herein, we report an amelanotic melanoma involving the oral mucosa of the maxilla in a 27 year-old male. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014-11 2014-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4281196/ /pubmed/25628704 Text en Copyright © Dental Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Saghravanian, Nasrollah
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title_fullStr Oral Amelanotic Melanoma of the Maxilla
title_full_unstemmed Oral Amelanotic Melanoma of the Maxilla
title_short Oral Amelanotic Melanoma of the Maxilla
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4281196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25628704
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