Tonsillar melanoma metastasis

Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia

SUS¹  Silva, Maria do Socorro Barros da¹  Ferreira, Lidiane Maria de Brito Macedo¹  Gomes, Érika Ferreira¹  Rios, Adson Sales do Nascimento¹  Araújo, Roberta de Paula¹ 

关键词: malignant melanoma;    palatine tonsils.;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0034-72992006000600021

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Associacao Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cervicofacial

【 摘 要 】

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

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