Lymphangiomatous polyps generally present as a pale or pink pedunculated lesion attached to the
palatine tonsil.
Based on the features described above, a diagnosis of hamartoma of
palatine tonsil was made.
In this article, we report a case of SFT of the
palatine tonsil, and we review the literature regarding the clinicopathologic characteristics related to patient outcomes.
7) However, Evans and Odom (9) reported a case of a 13-year-old girl with lymphangioma of the right
palatine tonsil who had palpable lymph nodes in the right cervical region.
Different pattern of cytokine production and mRNA expression by lymphoid and non-lymphoid cells isolated from human
palatine tonsil.
13) In my own practice, when confronted with cystic nodal metastases with this characteristic, moderately poor differentiation, nonkeratinizing, or "basaloid" morphology, I suggest that the primary tumor is likely to be found in the
palatine tonsil or base of tongue (lingual tonsil).
9) in their study of histopathological findings of chronic tonsillitis in
palatine tonsils concluded that slight to moderate lymphocytic infiltrations in surface epithelium, crypt abscess and or diffuse lymphocytic infiltrations were pathognomic of chronic tonsillitis.
A case of metastasis ofseminoma to the
palatine tonsil.
09% of all oral biopsy specimens, and
palatine tonsil involvement is extremely rare.
The majority of tonsillectomies carried out during the last half of the 20th century were performed with the "cold knife" technique; that is, by employing a Dean or Fisher knife and tonsil snare to remove the
palatine tonsil from its fossa.
A case of lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma arising from the
palatine tonsil.
Although some sporadic cases of tonsillar schwannoma have been reported, to the best of our knowledge this is only the second case of a solitary neurofibroma of the
palatine tonsil to be reported in the English-language literature.