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Oral Melanoma: Relevance To The Dental Team Members, Yeshwant B. Rawal, Thomas B. Dodson, Harbinder S. Bal
Oral Melanoma: Relevance To The Dental Team Members, Yeshwant B. Rawal, Thomas B. Dodson, Harbinder S. Bal
School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications
Background and Overview
Oral melanomas vary in color and morphology and resemble myriad other reactive, benign, or malignant conditions. The authors describe a case report of a patient with a primary oral melanoma that presented as a nonspecific ulcer, which showed nodal metastasis during resection.
Case Description
A 64-year-old man who was examined by his periodontist to assess implant healing had a reddish-purple ulcer of the maxillary mucosa of 3 to 4 weeks duration. The implant was placed 19 weeks earlier in the mandible. The provisional diagnosis was that this ulcer was a traumatic or inflammatory lesion. The clinician biopsied …