Abstract:Pigmented malignant oral mucosa lesions are infrequent, but with high rates of morbidity and mortality, and have a poor prognosis despite aggressive treatments that can combine large surgical resection with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Given this scenario, the clinical conduct associated with pigmented lesions is the immediate biopsy to confirm or rule out the disease and thus the early initiation of treatment. This article is about a patient attended in a public hospital about six months after the first sig… Show more
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