Blue Nevus of the Hard Palate: The Importance of a Careful Examination in an Emergency Setting

• Main Authors: Ana Teresa Tavares (Author), André Pereira (Author), João Pimentel (Author), Marcelo Prates (Author), Luís Fonseca (Author), Maria Rosário Marques (Author), Francisco Proença (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oral common blue nevus is an asymptomatic, benign, rare, pigmented lesion and sometimes clinically indistinguishable from other pigmented lesions such as the cellular blue nevus or early-stage malignant melanoma. Since it shows clinical similarities with a malignant lesion and with cellular blue nev...