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Metastatic melanoma of the tonsil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2007
Abstract
Metastasis to the tonsils from malignant melanoma is rare. This paper describes one such case in a woman with synchronous breast adenocarcinoma and cutaneous malignant melanoma who had a most unusual clinical course.
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