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Intraoperative photograph showing a pedunculated polypoid lesion of the right palatine tonsil.
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Intraoperatively, she was found to have a polypoid lesion arising from the superior pole of the right palatine tonsil (Figure 1).
Histopathologic specimen showing proliferation of thin-walled lymphovascular channels containing luminal valve structures and sparse proteinaceous material with fibrous background, surrounding lymphoid tissue, and surface nonkeratinizing stratified squamous epithelium (40x magnification).
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The histopathologic sections of the lesion arising from the tonsil showed a polypoid portion of fibrous connective tissue with nonkeratinizing stratified squamous epithelium at the surface and dense lymphoid tissue at the base (Figure 2).