Tonsillar melanoma metastasis.

Malignant melanoma is an aggressive cutaneous melanocytic neoplasia of fast spread1. Despite its diagnosis, the disease mortality still reaches high levels. Metastasis to the oral cavity of the cutaneous melanoma is rare2-5: until 2001 less than 30 cases of metastasis in the palatine tonsils had been published3. This type of dissemination is blood-born and the prognosis is deleterious. The reasons for presenting this case are the fact of being a rare finding and the importance of early diagnosis, since the oral cavity is not always examined as routine by clinicians and oncologists in the follow up of patients diagnosed with melanomas.