title: Approach to benign tumors of the palate: analysis of 28 cases.
abstract: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 28 patients-15 men and 13 women, aged 17 to 71 years (mean: 41.6)-who had undergone surgery for the treatment of a benign tumor of the hard or soft palate. The most common chief complaint was a palatal mass, which was reported by 14 patients (50.0%). Tumors were more common in the hard palate than in the soft palate by a margin of 23 to 5 (82.1 to 17.9%; p = 0.001). The most common histopathologic diagnosis was pleomorphic adenoma, which occurred in 9 cases (32.1%). Most patients were treated with local excision with clear margins, which was sufficient in almost all cases, as there were only 2 recurrences, both of which occurred in men with a hard-palate pleomorphic adenoma. For these 2 patients, a wider excision and repair with palatal islet flaps was performed, and no further recurrence or malignant transformation was observed during follow-up. Two patients with a soft-palate hemangioma were treated with an intralesional steroid injection and radiofrequency ablation, which reduced the size of their lesion considerably.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Karadeniz Technical University School of Medicine, 61080 Trabzon, Turkey. ahmetural2001@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ural
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Livaoğlu
authors.forename: Devrim
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bektaş
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bahadır
authors.forename: Atilla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hesapçıoğlu
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imamoğlu
authors.forename: Abdülcemal Umit
authors.initials: AU
authors.lastname: Işık
mesh_terms: D008949:Adenoma, Pleomorphic / Q000601:surgery*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010157:Palatal Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult