Mucosal Melanoma In Situ of the Oral Cavity: A Case Report and Systematic Review of the Literature.

Objective: Malignant mucosal melanomas of the head and neck comprise a very small portion of all melanomas, particularly in the oral cavity. These lesions are associated with high rates of local recurrence, distant metastasis, and a very poor 5-year survival rate; however, the clinical outcomes of mucosal melanoma in situ of the oral cavity are unclear. Therefore, we present a case report of mucosal melanoma in situ and a systematic review of the literature to shed light on this rare but important disease.

Knudsen-number dependence of two-dimensional single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor fluid instabilities.

We present a study of single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities with a modified direct simulation Monte Carlo (MDSMC) code in two dimensions. The MDSMC code is aimed to capture the dynamics of matter for a large range of Knudsen numbers within one approach. Our method combines the traditional Monte Carlo technique to efficiently propagate particles and the point-of-closest-approach method for high spatial resolution.