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case_images: Photograph of the swelling of the left palate with intact overlying mucosa.
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case_images: Upon physical examination, a 2 cm nonfluctuating, nontender, immobile, firm nodular swelling was observed with intact overlying mucosa on the left side of the hard palate in the bicuspid-molar region (Figure 1).
case_images: MRI sections showing a well-defined, homogenous enhancing lesion in the left palate.
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case_images: MRI showed a well-demarcated mass of the left side of the hard palate without bone invasion (Figures 2(a) and 2(b)).
case_images: Image of the excised palatal tumor, with macroscopically intact capsule.
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case_images: The mucosa around the tumor was marked and incised with an adequate margin, followed by dissection, with removal of the whole encapsulated mass and the mucoperiosteum (Figure 3).
case_images: Image of the palatal defect after tumor resection.
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case_images: The defect on the palate was not reconstructed (Figure 4).
case_images: The wound was covered with a fabricated palatal acrylic plate.
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case_images: An iodine tampon dressing was placed, and the wound covered with a fabricated palatal acrylic plate (Figure 5).
case_images: (a-c) Histopathological examination of the tissue showed a mucosal excision. In the submucosal stroma, there was a multinodular tumor consisting of 2 components. One component showed solid fields of cells with round to oval nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm. There was also a component of spindled cells within a myxoid matrix, with perivascular condensation of the cells. The tumor was clearly demarked from the surrounding stroma.
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case_images: The tumor itself was sharply delineated (Figures 6(a)-6(c)).
case_images: Photograph of the postoperative healing 4 months after surgery.
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case_images: The wound gradually healed by secondary intention, and complete healing was observed 4 months after surgery (Figure 7).