Pyourachus: A Case Report.
10.3348/jkrs.1998.38.1.141
- Author:
Hyun Ja SHIN
1
;
Mi Young KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Korea veterans Hospital.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Urachus;
Genitourinary system, infection;
Abdomen, CT
- MeSH:
Abdomen;
Adult;
Child;
Diagnosis;
Fibromatosis, Aggressive;
Humans;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Umbilicus;
Urachal Cyst;
Urachus;
Urinary Bladder
- From:Journal of the Korean Radiological Society
1998;38(1):141-143
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Pyourachus is an infection of urachal cyst which is one of congenital urachal anormalies. It should bedifferentiated from urachal tumor in adult, and abdominal desmoplastic round cell tumor, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,and intra-abdominal desmoid tumor in children. The CT findings of pyourachus are characteristic to provide anaccurate preoperative diagnosis. The authors encountered a case of pyourachus in a 58-year-old male and report thecharacteristic CT findings. A large hypodense spherical mass with irregular thickened wall was present in themidline of the lower abdomen under the rectus abdominalis muscle extending from the dome of the urinary bladder tothe level of the umbilicus.
