RT - Journal TY - JOUR A1 - Sundaragiri, Krishna A1 - Saxena, Shikha A1 - Shekhawat, Chandni A1 - Sankhla, Bharat T1 - Oral mucosal melanoma: An enigma to the clinician YR - 2018/7/1 JF - International Journal of Head and Neck Pathology JO - Int J Head Neck Pathol SP - 48 OP - 51 VO - 1 IS - 2 UL - https://www.ijhnp.org/article.asp?issn=2590-2997;year=2018;volume=1;issue=2;spage=48;epage=51;aulast=Sundaragiri;t=5 DO - 10.4103/JHNP.JHNP_1_18 N2 - Oral mucosal melanoma is a rare oral malignancy with well defined clinical presentation of a pigmented brown macular to nodular lesion. The careful histopathological examination along with immunohistochemistry of the biopsy specimen was helpful in identification of this noxious lesion. A clear distinction between management and prognosis of benign gingival lesions and rarer lesions exists. Thus every general dental practitioner should advocate a mandatory histopathological examination of the each and every gingival growth. We present a unique case of oral mucosal melanoma masquerading as a benign gingival growth without any clinical presence of pigmentation in a 58-year-old male patient. ER -