Symptoms of palatal tumors

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Soft palate carcinoma accounted for 13.5% of primary palatal malignant tumors. The most common pathological type was glandular epithelium, followed by squamous epithelium, malignant melanoma was the third, and sarcoma was rare. The early symptoms are not obvious and easy to be ignored. Limited lesions can be resected by surgery. Because of the characteristics of multiple soft palate cancer, local resection is easy to have the recurrence of mucosal edge, which should be paid attention to during surgery. Radiotherapy has a higher cure rate for early and middle stage tumors, and has less damage to function, and does not need prosthesis or tissue reconstruction. What are the symptoms of palatal tumors? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of palatal tumors

It can be radiated to the ipsilateral face and neck, and the application of antibiotics can temporarily relieve the symptoms. In the late stage, dysphagia, voice changes, fixation, destruction and perforation of the soft palate may lead to food reflux to the nasal cavity; Invading nasopharyngeal or parapharyngeal space upwards or outwards can lead to closed teeth, difficulty in opening mouth, otitis media and temporal pain.

Almost all squamous cell carcinoma of the soft palate occurred on the oral surface of the soft palate. There were few tumors on the nasopharynx. Even larger tumors in the nasopharynx rarely invaded the soft palate and nasopharynx.

In the early stage, the tumor was red and the boundary was not obvious. In the middle and advanced stage of cancer, there are ulcers, marginal protuberances, or exogenous growth, especially around the uvula. Soft palate tumors first spread to tonsil arch and hard palate. Extending outward through the superior pharyngeal constrictor, invading the medial pterygoid muscle and skull base, occasionally involving or compressing the cranial nerves in the parapharyngeal space. In late stage, it often invades the lateral wall of nasopharynx, causing perforation or rupture of soft palate.

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Radiation usually uses external radiation with opposite radiation field, including soft palate and upper cervical lymph nodes. If there is only one isolated primary lesion in the soft palate, it can be implanted with local radioactive elements through the mouth, which can also achieve good results. Local implantation should be performed before external radiation.