Clinical Study
Mucosal Melanoma in the Head and Neck Region: Different Clinical Features and Same Outcome to Cutaneous Melanoma
Table 1
Characteristics and distribution of various parameters depending on melanoma patients.
| | Site of melanoma | Age of patients median (range) | Gender of patients
| Stage of disease | | Male | Female | Locally | Lymph node
positive | Distant metastatic |
| | Mucosal melanoma | | | | | | | | Sinonasal | 57 (35–79) | 9 (45%) | 11 (55%) | 16 (80%) | 1 (5%) | 3 (15%) | Oral cavity
| 63 (38–84) | 11 (52%) | 10 (48%) | 16 (76%) | 3 (14%) | 2 (10%) | | P value | 0.644 | 0.636
| | 0.555 | | | Cutaneous melanoma | | | | | | | | Face | 59 (17–104) | 21 (42%) | 29 (58%) | 42 (84%) | 8 (16%) | 0 (0%) | | Scalp | 46 (18–72) | 21 (81%) | 5 (19%) | 14 (54%) | 6 (23%) | 6 (23%) | | Ear | 47 (24–74) | 9 (50%) | 9 (50%) | 5 (28%) | 12 (67%) | 1 (5%) | | P value | 0.001 | 0.005
| | <0.001 | | | Mucosal melanoma, total | 60 (35–84) | 20 (49%) | 21 (51%) | 32 (78%) | 4 (10%) | 5 (12%) | Cutaneous melanoma, total
| 54 (17–104) | 51 (54%) | 43 (46%) | 61 (65%)
| 26 (28%) | 7 (7%) | | P value | 0.008
| 0.558 | | 0.062 | |
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