Primary mucosal desmoplastic melanoma of the head and neck

Head and Neck

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 373-377

  Prasad, Manju L ^a,b   Patel, Snehal G ^a   Busam, Klaus J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Desmoplastic; Head and neck; Melanoma; Mucosal

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; AGED; ALVEOLAR BONE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BONE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARTILAGE; CHEEK MUCOSA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINA PROPRIA; LIP; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CAVITY; NOSE CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GENES, P53; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NOSE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1842474425     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10384     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Conley J, Lattes R, Orr W. Desmoplastic malignant melanoma: a rare variant of spindle cell melanoma. Cancer 1971;28:914-936.
2. Carlson JA, Dickersin GR, Sober AJ, Barnhill RL. Desmoplastic neurotropic melanoma. A clinicopathologic analysis of 28 cases. Cancer 1995;75:478-494.
3. Sagebiel RW. Unusual variants of melanoma: fact or fiction? Semin Oncol 1996;23:703-708.
4. Batsakis JG, Bauer R, Regezi JA, Campbell T. Desmoplastic melanoma of the maxillary alveolus. J Oral Surg 1979;37:107-109.
5. Jain S, Allen PW. Desmoplastic malignant melanoma and its variants. A study of 45 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 1989;13:358-373.
6. Devaraj VS, Moss AL, Briggs JC. Desmoplastic melanoma: a clinicopathological review. Br J Plast Surg 1992;45:595-598.
7. Kurihara K, Sanada E, Yasuda S, Yamasaki H. Desmoplastic malignant melanoma of the gingival. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol 1992;74:201-205.
8. Manganaro AM, Hammond HL, Dalton MJ, Williams TP. Oral melanoma: case reports and review of the literature. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 1995;80:670-676.
9. Kilpatrick SE, White WL, Browne JD. Desmoplastic malignant melanoma of the oral mucosa. An underrecognized diagnostic pitfall. Cancer 1996;78:383-389.
10. Hussein MR, Haemel AK, Wood GS. Apoptosis and melanoma: molecular mechanisms. J Pathol 2003;199:275-288.
11. Lebedeva IV, Su ZZ, Sarkar D, Fisher PB. Restoring apoptosis as a strategy for cancer gene therapy: focus on p53 and mda-7. Semin Cancer Biol 2003;13:169-178.
12. Prasad ML, Jungbluth AA, Iversen K, Huvos AG, Busam KJ. Expression of melanocytic differentiation markers in malignant melanomas of the oral and sinonasal mucosa. Am J Surg Pathol 2001;25:782-787.
13. Prasad ML, Patel S, Hoshaw-Woodard S, et al. Prognostic factors for malignant melanoma of the squamous mucosa of the head and neck. Am J Surg Pathol 2002;26:883-892.
14. Patel SG, Prasad ML, Escrig M, et al. Primary mucosal malignant melanoma of the head and neck. Head Neck, 2002;24:247-257.
15. Smithers BM, McLeod GR, Little JH. Desmoplastic melanoma: patterns of recurrence. World J Surg 1992;16:186-190.
16. Ragnarsson-Olding BK, Karsberg S, Platz A, Ringborg UK. Mutations in the TP53 gene in human malignant melanomas derived from sun-exposed skin and unexposed mucosal membranes. Melanoma Res 2002;12:453-463.
17. Prasad ML, Patel S, Shah JP, Huvos AG, Busam KJ. Expression and prognostic significance of cell cycle and apoptosis related proteins p53, p16 INK4A and bcl-2 in primary mucosal melanomas of the head and neck. Mod Pathol 2002;15:223A.
18. Brennan JA, MAO L, Hruban RH, et al. Molecular assessment of histopathological staging in the squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck. N Engl J Med 1995, 332:429-435.
19. Nabeya Y, Loganzo F Jr, Maslak P, et al. The mutational status of p53 in gastric and esophageal adenocarcinoma cell lines predicts sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents. Int J Cancer 1995;64:37-46.