6 A kidney or urinary tract infection, a bladder or kidney stone, a harmless growth like a
bladder polyp or rarely, a sign of cancer.
QFOUR years ago I had an operation for removal of a bladder polyp. Could this have any sinister connection with my waterworks problem?
GD, West Bromwich A BLADDER polyps become increasingly common with age and may be benign or malignant.
Among four cases, misdiagnosed as gall
bladder polyp, one patient had chronic cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, two had xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis and one had well differentiated adenocarcinoma histopathologically.
Most often this symptomless bleeding is due to a
bladder polyp, a small benign growth of the lining.
USG suggested dilated gall bladder with a gall
bladder polyp of size 2.0 cm with normal gall bladder wall thickness.
Prevalence and risk factors for gall
bladder polyps. East Afr Med J 2007; 84: 336-41.
Bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics, some bladder stones can be dissolved with special diets while others require surgical removal, along with benign
bladder polyps.
In human pathology, gall
bladder polyps are outgrowths of the gallbladder mucosal wall.
Two-hundred seventy-four respondents (4.2%) have or had bladder cancer or
bladder polyps. Table 4 lists the distribution of bladder cancer among respondents by SCC classification.