Otic polyp Otic polyp An otic polyp (also called aural polyp) is a benign proliferation of chronic inflammatory cells associated with granulation tissue, in response to a longstanding inflammatory process of the middle ear. Patients usually present with otorrhea, conductive hearing loss, and otalgia, while bleeding and a sensation of a mass are much less common. Although imaging is not required to yield a diagnosis, it may be obtained to exclude other disorders, such as a concurrent cholesteatoma. By gross description, there is usually a solitary, polypoid, reddish mass behind an intact ear drum (typmanic membrane). The tissue is often friable, measuring
Museum of Human Anatomy Luigi Rolando theory of Charles Darwin encourages the development of anthropological collections and primatological. In 1898, with the completion of the building of anatomical studies, the museum was moved to its permanent headquarters. The museum, in addition to the collection of purely anatomical features, also contains anthropological collections, phrenological, primatological, artistic and period instruments. There is also a library and an archive of documents and photographs. The museum contains a collection of 200 human wax models. Museum of Human Anatomy Luigi Rolando The Museum of Human Anatomy Luigi Rolando () is a museum of human anatomy that was founded in 1739 with