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- Title
Palate: Diagnostic dilemma in a dicey area.
- Authors
Singh, Tajindra; Spadigam, Anita; Dhupar, Anita; Syed, Shaheen
- Abstract
Palatal masses are commonly encountered in clinical practice and they usually exhibit an overlap of clinical and biologic features producing diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. Palate acts as a dividing shelf between oral and nasal cavity. Masses and lesions of the hard palate should raise immediate concern on the part of clinician because of their proximity to the vital structures of the orbital cavity and base of the skull. The unique position of the palate in the head and neck region makes it a possible site from which not only infection but also tumor cells can take multiple paths. Thus it will be not wrong at this stage to consider palate as a dangerous area of the oral cavity, which makes it necessary to rule out malignant or locally aggressive and recurrent lesions by histologic diagnosis as early as possible, so that the definitive treatment can be accomplished thus limiting the associated morbidity and mortality.
- Subjects
PALATE tumors; PALATE; DISEASES
- Publication
Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology (0973029X), 2014, Vol 18, pS70
- ISSN
0973-029X
- Publication type
Abstract