Tailgut Cyst A case report.
- Author:
Byeong Yul AHN
;
Choon Sik JEONG
;
Dong Hee LEE
;
Chang Sik YU
;
Ho Jung LEE
;
Moon Kyu LEE
;
Jin Cheon KIM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Tailgut cyst;
Congenital cyst;
Retrorectal cyst
- MeSH:
Abdominal Pain;
Defecation;
Dermoid Cyst;
Epithelium;
Female;
Humans;
Leiomyoma;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Rectum;
Teratoma;
Ultrasonography
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology
1998;14(3):617-620
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Tailgut cyst is a rare congenital lesion in retrorectal space. The clinical significance of tailgut cyst presents its morbidity that occurs in the unrecognized and incompletely treated lesion. A forty four year-old female patient visited with lower abdominal pain during defecation. Preoperative abdominopelvic MRI and endorectal ultrasonography revealed a retrorectal mass suggestive of leiomyoma, dermoid cyst, teratoma, or duplication cyst of rectum. She underwent complete resection of retrorectal mass by transsphincteric approach. The mass was multilocular cyst lined by multiple types of epithelium. It was histologically confirmed as a tailgut cyst. She recovered uneventfully. This report includes the case and a brief review of tailgut cyst.
