Oral malignant melanoma: History of malignant degeneration of a pigmented lesion

• Päätekijät: Mellouli Nour (Tekijä), Sioud Samah (Tekijä), Garma Maroua (Tekijä), Chokri Abdellatif (Tekijä), Hamdi Habib (Tekijä), Selmi Jamil (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: EDP Sciences, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction: Oral malignant melanoma (OMM) is a rare malignant lesion of the oral mucosa. It accounts for 0.5% of oral cavity cancers and less than 1% of all melanomas. Most cases arise on the palate or gingiva. OMM is caused by unknown factors. Benign pigmentation may precede the neoplasm by sever...