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Merkel cell carcinoma arising in the oral mucosa
R Mir1, J J Sciubba, T A Bhuiya
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
This is the first reported case of a Merkel cell carcinoma arising in the oral mucosa. The tumor occurred in a 53-year-old white man, and it originated in the right mucobuccal fold. The Merkel cell origin was confirmed by electron microscopic and immunohistochemical studies.