Oral Medicine &Radiology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental & Medical Sciences, Lucknow.
*Correspondence: Dr. Kamala R.(PROF. and H.O.D.) Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sardar Patel Post Graduate Institute of Dental and Medical Sciences, Raebarelli road, Near PGI, Chaudhry Vihar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Phone No.: + 919956936845
Oral mucosal melanoma (OMM) is an extremely rare malignancy accounting for < 0.5% of all melanomas and all oral malignancies. The clinical presentation of a malignant melanoma is usually a brownblack coloured swelling with or without ulceration; it is usually asymptomatic in the early stage. The common site of its occurrence is the palate and the gingiva, being affected in 80% of the cases. Unpredictable and widespread metastasis is a well known feature of malignant melanoma and this malignancy has an extremely poor prognosis. A case of Amelanotic melanoma of the floor of the mouth in a 58 year old female patient is presented.
melanoma, pigmentation, melanocytes, gingiva
