Clinical and Histopathological Aspects of Soft Palate Tumors

A retrospective analysis included the patients seen at the Head and Neck Surgery clinic of the Institution. Results: From the 43 patients, 10 of them presented malignant tumors (23%) and 33 presented benign tumors (77%). Among all of the tumors, 26 were papillomas (60.5%); 9 were squamous cell carcinomas (21%); 4 were hemangiomas (9.3%); 2 were pleomorphic adenomas (4.6%); 1 was adenocarcinoma (2.3%) and 1 was lipoma (2.3%). Conclusion: It was noticed that epithelial tumors are the most frequent in both malignant and benign groups, what is related to the predominant epithelial tissue in soft palate.