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Case report| Volume 89, ISSUE 3, P692-695, March 1955

Hemangioendothelioma of palate, with wide surgical removal and immediate skin graft

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      Abstract

      A rare case of hemangioendothelioma of the palate is reported.
      The method of treatment was wide excision of the lesion with immediate split-thickness skin graft.
      The healing was complete in eighteen days.
      Approximately a year and a half postoperatively there has been no local or general evidence of metastasis.
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