You may need to remove nasal polyps if they’re large enough to interfere with your quality of life. Surgery, called nasal polypectomy, is the standard procedure used. Nasal polyps refer to small ...

Nasal polyps are soft, painless growths in your sinuses or nasal passages. They are usually benign (noncancerous). Most nasal polyps form from chronic inflammation linked to allergies, asthma, ...

Dear Doctors: I am 80 years old, and my physician is concerned regarding the potential risks of the colonoscopy I feel I need. Each colonoscopy I've had has identified several polyps. Given this ...

You may not be able to see nasal polyps, but that doesn’t mean you can’t sense their constant presence. In fact, more than half of people who have the condition say that reducing or eliminating their ...

Nasal polyps are painless, teardrop-shaped growths that form in your nose or sinuses. They’re most common where the sinuses near your eyes and cheekbones drain into your nose. Nasal polyps are not ...

Colon polyps are small growths of tissue that project from the lining of a section of the large intestine known as the colon. Colon polyps typically grow in two shapes: flat or with a stalk. There are ...

Having trouble breathing through your nose? Subject to frequent olfactory infections? Feel like your sense of smell isn't what it used to be? Nasal polyps—or fleshy, noncancerous, skin tag-type ...

Bladder polyps are small, often cauliflower-like growths that protrude from the lining of the urinary bladder. Typically, polyps are groups of abnormal cells that appear along mucous membranes in the ...

What Is a Tubular Adenoma? If you’ve ever had a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer, your doctor may have told you that they found polyps. These small clumps of cells that form on your colon lining ...

Unless you or someone close to you has been previously diagnosed with an endometrial polyp, you are likely to know what that is. These abnormal growths are common, with more than 200,000 cases per ...