Primary retromolar malignant melanoma in a Latin American patient

Pigmented Malignant Lesion of Central Arch Gingiva of Mandible

Primary oral malignant melanoma (OMM) is a rare malignant lesion with a relatively poor prognosis. The clinical presentation may be nodular, macular, or mixed type, with or without pigmentation. The pigmented lesions in the oral cavity may be either melanocytic or non-melanocytic and neoplastic or non-neoplastic lesions. For all the pigmented lesions of the oral cavity, clinicians must consider OMM as a differential diagnosis. Hence, a histopathological examination is required. Herein, we report a case of pigmented growth over the central arch and gingival mucosa, which turned out to be an OMM.