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Oral Malignant Melanoma
It is generally accepted that the outcome of oral malignant melanoma is worse than that of cutaneous and systemic head and neck melanoma. The five-year survival reported in the literature for oral melanomas varies from 0 20 % (Liversedge, 1975, Rapidis et al., 2003, Rapini et al., 1985), whereas the overall survival for head and neck melanomas ranges between 20 and 48 % (Guzzo et al., 1993, Pat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Cancer
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0007-0920,1532-1827
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1981.211