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Case 41 - Sinonasal Melanoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2019

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Alessandro Franchi
Edited by
Alessandro Franchi
Alessandro Franchi
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
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Summary

A 77-year-old woman presented with a large destructive tumor involving the left nasal cavity and the left maxillary sinus. An incisional biopsy was taken.

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Pearls and Pitfalls in Head and Neck Pathology , pp. 91 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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