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case_images: Preoperative hard and soft palate lesion.
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case_images: F1
case_images: The patient, a 27-year-old white male, was referred by a private oral surgeon to our hospital for evaluation of a hard palate lesion that had appeared six months before (Figure 1).
case_images: Preoperative CT image.
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case_images: F2
case_images: The nasopharynx appeared normal (Figure 2).
case_images: Biopsy finding: Well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.
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case_images: F3
case_images: An incisional biopsy performed under local anaesthesia revealed a well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (Figure 3).