13Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of anal canal
DB71Anal polyp
DB71.0
category
Inflammatory anal polyp
Definition Inflammatory polyp is an abnormal, mushroom-like growth sticking out from the mucous membrane that lines the anus. This mass is a reaction to some type of chronic inflammation in the anus.
Also indexed as
Inflammatory anal polyp
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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