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Melanoma of the oral cavity: A silent killer

Melanoma of the mouth is a rare entity of cancer. It has a bad prognosis. We report two cases of mouth melanoma. In the first case, 68 years old man developed a mandibular gingival tumor. Head and neck MRI scans showed an aggressive tumor process in the mouth with bone extension and in the deep spac...

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Autores principales: Aloua, Rachid, Kaouani, Amine, Kerdoud, Ouassime, Salissou, Iro, Slimani, Faiçal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7829076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33532067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.01.026
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author Aloua, Rachid
Kaouani, Amine
Kerdoud, Ouassime
Salissou, Iro
Slimani, Faiçal
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description Melanoma of the mouth is a rare entity of cancer. It has a bad prognosis. We report two cases of mouth melanoma. In the first case, 68 years old man developed a mandibular gingival tumor. Head and neck MRI scans showed an aggressive tumor process in the mouth with bone extension and in the deep spaces. The patient was free of cervical lymph nodes. The second case is a 75-years-old male with heavy tobacco smoke. The man felt a burgeoning mass on the right palate. The neck palpation found a firm mobile non-tender mass at the left upper jugular region. The anatomopathological study of the biopsies assigned both cases to malignant melanoma. Because of the rarity and delays in diagnosis, case reports are an invaluable source of information.
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spelling pubmed-78290762021-02-01 Melanoma of the oral cavity: A silent killer Aloua, Rachid Kaouani, Amine Kerdoud, Ouassime Salissou, Iro Slimani, Faiçal Ann Med Surg (Lond) Case Series Melanoma of the mouth is a rare entity of cancer. It has a bad prognosis. We report two cases of mouth melanoma. In the first case, 68 years old man developed a mandibular gingival tumor. Head and neck MRI scans showed an aggressive tumor process in the mouth with bone extension and in the deep spaces. The patient was free of cervical lymph nodes. The second case is a 75-years-old male with heavy tobacco smoke. The man felt a burgeoning mass on the right palate. The neck palpation found a firm mobile non-tender mass at the left upper jugular region. The anatomopathological study of the biopsies assigned both cases to malignant melanoma. Because of the rarity and delays in diagnosis, case reports are an invaluable source of information. Elsevier 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7829076/ /pubmed/33532067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.01.026 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Melanoma of the oral cavity: A silent killer
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title_short Melanoma of the oral cavity: A silent killer
title_sort melanoma of the oral cavity: a silent killer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7829076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33532067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.01.026
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