Malignant melanoma of unknown primary site simulating a salivary gland neoplasm
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Malignant melanoma of unknown primary site simulating a salivary gland neoplasm.
Malignant melanoma with its varied clinical presentations and histomorphological patterns is a perplexing problem both for the diagnosticians and clinicians. A small proportion of melanomas present with metastatic tumors with unknown primary sites and at these sites they mimic the more common primary neoplasms. We hereby report a case of malignant melanoma presenting as a submandibular lump in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Journal of Pathology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1018-5615,1309-5730
DOI: 10.5146/tjpath.2011.01051