Case Report: Primary Mucosal Melanoma. An Extremely Rare Case in the Private Dental Practice

Abstract

Mucosal melanoma (synonyms: oral melanoma, oral mucosal melanoma, and oral malignant melanoma) of the head and neck is a very rare and aggressive malignancy with a very poor prognosis. A 56-year-old white gentleman was referred to the private dental clinic with a darkly pigmented lesion on upper alveolar ridge, upper lip mucosa, and hard palate. That paper describes: differential diagnostics, classification of oral melanomas that differs from cutaneous melanomas, tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging of the oral mucosal melanoma, and treatment options.