PAPILLOMA

Papilloma - a benign tumor that develops from the epithelium; It has the form of papillary proliferation. In most cases have papilloma viral nature.

Papilloma found on the skin, oral mucosa, nasal, paranasal sinuses, pharynx, esophagus, larynx, trachea and bronchus, renal pelvis, ureter, and bladder, as well as on the vulva, vagina and cervix.

Papilloma is usually a delimited with a diameter of 1-2 cm (sometimes large), dense or soft to the touch tumor on thin, long or short stem, at least on a broad basis. The surface is uneven papillomavirus, fine- or coarse-grained, resembles a cauliflower or a cock's comb. Papilloma skin may have various color - white to off-brown (depending on the blood supply vessels and stromal pigment content in the basal layer of the epithelium); mucosal papillomas are often colorless or pearly white, but sometimes due to bleeding into the tissue of the tumor become purple or black. Papillomas of the bladder can be sealed by deposits of calcium salts.

The clinical picture depends mainly on the location of the lesion. For example, papilloma face and neck can cause a cosmetic defect, laryngeal papillomas of the mucous membrane - a violation of phonation and respiration, papilloma of the ureter leading to narrowing or obstruction of its lumen and disturbance of outflow of urine. Papilloma of the bladder and renal pelvis are often subjected to ulceration, which is accompanied by a separation of individual papillae and bleeding.

Treatment is carried out in order to eliminate cosmetic defects, due to the risk of malignancy, as well as a localization of the tumor , which can lead to functional disorders of the affected organ, trauma papilloma and re-bleeding, inflammation. Applied surgical removal of papillomas, their degradation by, for example, laser radiation.