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The diagnosis for polyps
is generally made on visualization,
using a flexible laryngoscope,
looking down at the vocal folds.
It looks like it could be a bump
along one vocal fold edge, it might be on both.
Usually, if there are two, they're gonna be asymmetrical.
And usually, one is a polyp,
and the other side is a reactive lesion
from the polyp banging against it.
Some other times, it's a nodule.
Sometimes, you can have polyps on both sides.
They can be hemorrhagic,
they can be fibrovascular,
they can be pedunculated--
like, hanging on a little stalk,
or they can encompass most of the vocal fold.
And belters, usually, that polyp is on
the inferior edge of the vocal fold.
Right, and that's often on both sides.
-On both sides. -If it's a singing injury.