While broken blood vessels can pop up on anyone’s face, they “typically develop in people with more fair skin,” says Dr. Zeichner. In most cases, they’re completely harmless.

Because hard palate cancer is rare, data on survival rates is limited. However, research used in a 2020 study showed that the 5-year survival rate can be between 33% and 86%.

A 53-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a painful lesion on her hard palate and a history of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus. One month prior, she had tested positive ...

Small clusters of abnormal blood vessels, known as cavernomas, rarely cause symptoms and are seen in about one in 600 people on MRI scans. Those that do cause symptoms are seen in about one in ...