Nasal polyp – Differential diagnosis
Nasal polyps are non neoplastic masses of nasal or sinus mucosa. The differential diagnosis for nasal polyp are:
- Hypertrophic turbinates – (see how How to differentiate nasal polyp from turbinate hypertrophy?)
- Blob of mucus – disappears on blowing the nose
- Angiofibroma – history of recurrent epistaxis
- Rhinosporidiosis
- Hamartoma
- Transitional cell carcinoma
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Meningocoele
- Other malignancies of nose
