Palate

Adj. palatal , palatine WKP
Components
soft palate
hard palate

median palatine cyst WKP
The median palatal cyst is a rare cyst that may occur anywhere along the median palatal raphe. It may produce swelling because of infection and is treated by excision or surgical removal.
This cyst can represent a more posterior presentation of a nasopalatine duct cyst, rather than a separate cystic degeneration of epithelial rests at the line of fusion of the palatine (...)

palatal cyst
Example
nasopalatine duct cyst
median palatal cyst
See also
palatine anomalies
cysts duct cysts

WKP
Definition : The hard palate is a thin horizontal bony plate of the skull, located in the roof of the mouth. It is formed by the palatine process of the maxilla and horizontal plate of palatine bone, and spans the arch formed by the upper teeth.

Squamous cell carcinoma of the soft palate; SCC
Images
Macroscopy: Squamous cell carcinoma of the soft palate https://twitter.com/drwilgonzalez/status/876492513070252033

Images
palatine vascular leiomyoma: "angioleiomyoma"/ H palate. well circumscribed, whorled smooth ms bundles+ thick-walled BV https://twitter.com/yasserdent/status/809090641825300480
Other localization
cutaneous angioleiomyoma
dural angioleiomyoma
See also
smooth muscle tumors
vascular tumors angioleiomyoma

Kaposi sarcoma of the palate; Palatal Kaposi sarcoma
Images
Kaposi sarcoma, palate - highlighting fascicular growth (intersecting fascicles) https://twitter.com/bunn_belinda/status/796890548493815808 https://twitter.com/bunn_belinda/status/796891499195695104 https://twitter.com/bunn_belinda/status/873380830047031296
See also
palatine tumors
Kaposi sarcoma

Examples
Kaposi sarcoma, palate - highlighting fascicular growth (intersecting fascicles) https://twitter.com/bunn_belinda/status/796890548493815808
See also
palate
oral tumors

WKP
Definition : The nasopalatine duct cyst is located within the nasopalatine canal that runs from nose to the oral cavity through the midline of the anterior bony palate, just posterior to the central incisor teeth.
The cyst arises from epithelial remnants of the nasopalatine duct, and its lining may be pseudostratified columnar ciliated epithelium, stratified squamous epithelium, columnar or cuboidal epithelium and combinations of these.
As surgical treatment comprises emptying the (...)

See also
labial cleft (cleft lip)
palatal cleft (cleft palate)
cleft lip/palate