Open AccessOral Mucosal Melanoma: The Natural History of the Disease a Case Report
Author(s) -
Daniel Cortés-Caballero,
Pablo Vidal,
Carlos Avendaño,
Humberto Velásquez,
D Segovia
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of medical and surgical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0719-532X
pISSN - 0719-3904
DOI - 10.32457/ijmss.2015.025
Subject(s) - medicine , natural history , melanoma , mucosal melanoma , disease , stage (stratigraphy) , lymph node , biopsy , cervical lymph nodes , dissection (medical) , lymph , endoscopic mucosal resection , surgery , adjuvant , resection , dermatology , pathology , cancer , oncology , metastasis , cancer research , paleontology , biology
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.