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Primary Oral Malignant Melanoma: Case Report

Tatjana Bujas
Ivana Pavić
Andrej Prus
Zlatko Marušić
Drinko Baličević

Abstract

Primary oral malignant melanoma usually presents as a dark brown or black lesion. It is a rare malignancy, accounting for less than 1% of all melanomas and 1.6% of all head and neck malignancies, thus forming up to 0.5% of all oral malignancies in the world literature. In general, the prognosis of oral melanoma is poor and worse than that of cutaneous melanoma. The preferred treatment is radical surgery alone or in combination with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and immunomodulatory agents. A case is presented of a large malignant melanoma of oral cavity, noticed six months before initial biopsy and by history described as a rapidly growing mass.

Keywords

Mouth neoplasms – diagnosis; Mouth neoplasms – pathology; Mouth neoplasma – surgery; Melanoma – diagnosis; Melanoma – pathology; Melanoma – surgery

Hrčak ID:

56824

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/56824

Publication date:

1.3.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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