Oral Mucosal Melanoma: The Natural History of the Disease a Case Report

• Cortés-Caballero, Daniel ^[3] ; Cortés, Pablo ^[3] ; Avendaño, Carlos ^[4] ; Velásquez, Humberto ^[1] ; Segovia, Daniel ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de La Frontera

     Universidad de La Frontera

     Temuco, Chile

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Los Andes

     Universidad de Los Andes

     Colombia

     
  3. [3] Servicio de Cirugía Maxilofacial, Hospital Puerto Montt, Servicio de Salud del Reloncaví, Puerto Montt.
  4. [4] Hospital de Puerto Aysén, Servicio de Salud Aysén, Puerto Aysén.

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• Localización: International Journal of Medical and Surgical Sciences, (IJMSS), ISSN-e 0719-532X, ISSN 0719-3904, Vol. 2, Nº. 3, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: September 2015), págs. 531-536
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Oral Mucosal Melanoma is a very aggressive disease that requires early detection by biopsy suspicious lesions, characteristics and surgical treatment resection with wide margins, cervical lymph node dissection and adjuvant therapies aimed at eradicating systemically neoplastic cells. The aim of this report is to show the evolution of this disease in a case where the patient did not accept treatment and thus understanding its earlier stage, the subsequent invasion of adjacent tissues and finally as it spread to the cervical lymph nodes and vital organs remote triggering systemic failure.