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. 2020 Dec;15(4):556-557.
doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2020.06.011. Epub 2020 Jun 17.

Oral mucosal melanoma: Case report

Chieh-Wei Lin  1 , Yi-Pang Lee  1 , Ming-Jay Hwang  1   2 , Chun-Pin Chiang  1   2   3
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Oral mucosal melanoma: Case report

Chieh-Wei Lin et al. J Dent Sci. 2020 Dec.
No abstract available

Keywords: Hard palate; Maxilla; Oral mucosal melanoma.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.

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Figure 1
Clinical, histological, and immunostained photographs of our case of oral mucosal melanoma. (A) Clinical photograph demonstrating a multinodular tumor at the right posterior edentulous maxillary edentulous alveolar ridge which extended to vestibular mucosa and hard palate across over the midline. The tumor mass was pink to red with focal black and bluish areas. (C) Microphotographs exhibiting a neoplasm composed of a sheet of pleomorphic epithelioid tumor cells interspersed with some large and small tumor cells and melanophages with melanin pigmentation (Hematoxylin and eosin stain; original magnification, 20×). (C and D) Immunostained microphotographs revealing that the tumor cells were positive for HMB-45 (C, original magnification, 20×) and S-100 protein (D, original magnification, 20×).
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