Primary Malignant Melanoma of the Oral Cavity

• Main Authors: L S Sreela (Author), Sunu Ramachandran (Author), C Venugopal (Author), Tinky Bose (Author), Nileena R Kumar (Author), Anita Balan (Author), K Nandakumar (Author), K Ramdas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oral melanomas are rare entities, accounting for 0.2 - 8% of all melanomas. They carry very serious implications in terms of risk to the patient and poor response to treatment. There is higher incidence among the Japanese and Asians, with peak age of occurrence above 40 years and increased male pred...