Chapter 19: Diseases of the Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat

This is an 82-year-old white female whose chief complaint was a painful lesion in the right posterior palate associated with the palatal gingiva of tooth # 2 (Figure 1). The patient stated that the lesion was painful and that "it feels like it festers." The lesion had a distinct rolled border with a crater that was focally ulcerated. ................
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