Oral non-squamous malignant tumors; diagnosis and treatment.
Some 90% of oral cancers consist of squamous cell carcinomas that arise from the oral mucosa. The remaining 10% of malignancies consist of malignant melanomas, carcinomas of the intraoral salivary glands, sarcomas of the soft tissues and the bones, malignant odontogenic tumors, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and metastases from primary tumors located elsewhere in the body. These malignancies will be briefly reviewed and discussed. The emphasis is on diagnosis and management.
van der Waal
Rutger
R
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Pathology, Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center/Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. vanderwaal@vumc.nl
van der Waal
Isaäc
I
D006801:Humans; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*