Case Report

Year : 2018 | Volume : 1 | Issue : 2 | Page : 48-51

Oral mucosal melanoma: An enigma to the clinician

Krishna Sireesha Sundaragiri, Shikha Saxena, Chandni Shekhawat1, Bharat Sankhla

Departments of Oral Pathology and 1 Oral Medicine, RUHS College of Dental Sciences, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Address for correspondence:

Dr. Krishna Sireesha Sundaragiri, Department of Oral Pathology, RUHS College of Dental Sciences (Government Dental College),

Jaipur ‐ 302 016, Rajasthan, India.

E‐mail: sksireesha@yahoo.co.in

Abstract

Oral mucosal melanoma is a rare oral malignancy with well defined clinical presentation of a pigmented brown macular to nodular lesion. The careful histopathological examination along with immunohistochemistry of the biopsy specimen was helpful in identification of this noxious lesion. A clear distinction between management and prognosis of benign gingival lesions and rarer lesions exists. Thus every general dental practitioner should advocate a mandatory histopathological examination of the each and every gingival growth. We present a unique case of oral mucosal melanoma masquerading as a benign gingival growth without any clinical presence of pigmentation in a 58-year-old male patient.

Keywords: Biopsy, melanoma, pigmentation

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How to cite this article: Sundaragiri KS, Saxena S, Shekhawat C, Sankhla B. Oral mucosal melanoma: An enigma to the clinician. Int J Head Neck Pathol 2018;1:48-51.