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inverted papilloma

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papilloma /pap·il·lo·ma/ (pap″il-o´mah) a benign tumor derived from epithelium.papillo´matous
fibroepithelial papilloma  a type containing extensive fibrous tissue.
intracanalicular papilloma  an arborizing nonmalignant growth within the ducts of certain glands, particularly of the breast.
intraductal papilloma  a tumor in a lactiferous duct, usually attached to the wall by a stalk; it may be solitary, often with a serous or bloody nipple discharge, or multiple.
inverted papilloma  one in which the proliferating epithelial cells invaginate into the underlying stroma.

inverted papilloma
ENT An inverted or exophytic tumor of nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses, which recurs in ±23 of cases; malignancy develops in 2% Surgical pathology A proliferation of thin epithelium overlying papillary fibrovascular fronds, found in either transitional epithelium–renal pelvis, ureters, bladder, urethra or stratified cuboidal epithelium–paranasal region,34 of Pts also had HPV types 6 and 11 and upper respiratory tract lesions


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Our series included 9 patients with inverted papilloma of the nose and paranasal sinuses who were treated from January 1998 through December 2003 (72 mo).
The pathogenesis of respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma (REAH) and inverted papilloma (IP) is poorly understood, especially compared with sinonasal adenocarcinoma (SNAC).
However, the gland proliferation in inverted papilloma is located only in the base of the papilloma, where it arises from the nasal epithelium and not throughout the lesion as in the READ hamartoma.
 
 
 
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