Polyp (medicine)

Polyps are macroscopically visible, usually pedunculated protrusions of the mucosa (mucous membrane ). Your descriptive name derives from the polyps of Cnidaria ago (Greek polypous = " Vielfüßer "), which describe a pedunculated stage in their individual development.

Descriptive

The medical word polyp is purely descriptive (eg Nasenschleimhautpolyp - flammable; Colonic polyp - neoplastic ) and neither says anything about the etiology something about the dignity of, that is, a neoplastic polyp can be both benign and malignant. The differentiation can only be made by histological ablation.

Diseases

About the endoscopic removal of colonic polyps with a flexible instrument was first reported at the University of Erlangen on 13 March 1971 by P. Deyhle. Thus the basis for screening colonoscopy was laid in Germany. At the same time this was the beginning of the operative endoscopy.

Frequently occur as adenomas polyps in the colon. There they can be removed during a colonoscopy, as the risk of developing colon cancer is to ( adenoma -carcinoma sequence ).

The occurrence of many polyps is referred to as polyposis. It is possible for such a finding in the uterus ( uterine polyps ), stomach ( ulcer polyposis ), the sinuses as so-called nasal polyp ( nasal polyps and sinus polyps ) and in the context of several diseases in the intestine ( polyposis coli).

Demarcation

Enlarged adenoids adenoids hot. They often occur in children and are colloquially referred to as " polyps ".