Inflammatory cloacogenic polyp: a rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

Inflammatory cloacogenic polyp is a rare type of inflammatory anorectal lesion in which mucosal prolapse plays a pathogenetic role. It has been suggested that the aetiology may be the same as that of solitary rectal ulcer syndrome, inflammatory cap and myoglandular polyps (1,2). Inflammatory cloacogenic polyp can be associated with conditions such as Crohn’s disease, malabsorption syndromes, diverticulosis, haemorrhoids and adenocarcinoma (3). We present a case of cloacogenic polyp, an infrequently diagnosed type of polyp, which manifested itself clinically in the form of lower gastrointestinal bleeding.