Özet:

Mucosal malignant melanoma of the head and neck are fairly rare pathologies. Even if it is not macroscopically pigmented, malignant melanoma should be included in the differential diagnosis in mucosal lesions. Mucosal malignant melanoma cases which were admitted during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic in 2020 were retrospectively screened. Two cases were detected. The first case was a 42-year-old male patient with tonsillar malignant melanoma presenting with a nonpigmented ulcerated mass. Second case was a 56-yearold male patient with a pigmented lesion in the left pyriform sinus. In the first case, modified radical neck dissection and lobectomy for the mass in the lung were performed at different times after whole body positron emission tomography-computed tomography scanning. Lobectomy material and two metastatic lymph nodes in the neck dissection were reported as invasive malignant melanoma. In the second case, retropharyngeal lymph node metastasis was detected accompanying the primary lesion after whole body positron emission tomography scan. Both patients were referred to oncology department for adjuvant therapy after surgical excisions.

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