title: Primary oral malignant melanoma: case report.
abstract: Primary oral malignant melanoma usually presents as a dark brown or black lesion. It is a rare malignancy, accounting for less than 1% of all melanomas and 1.6% of all head and neck malignancies, thus forming up to 0.5% of all oral malignancies in the world literature. In general, the prognosis of oral melanoma is poor and worse than that of cutaneous melanoma. The preferred treatment is radical surgery alone or in combination with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and immunomodulatory agents. A case is presented of a large malignant melanoma of oral cavity, noticed six months before initial biopsy and by history described as a rapidly growing mass.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Karlovac General Hospital, Karlovac, Croatia.
authors.forename: Tatjana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bujas
authors.forename: Ivana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pavić
authors.forename: Andrej
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prus
authors.forename: Zlatko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Marusić
authors.forename: Drinko
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Balicević
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy