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BMJ Case Rep
April 2024
Surgery Unit 2 and Colorectal Surgery, Christian Medical College and Hospital Vellore, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
A man in his mid-40s presented to the colorectal surgery clinic with complaints of chronic perianal pain for over 20 years. He had episodes of urinary incontinence associated with pain. There were no other symptoms to suspect bowel pathology.
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November 2023
Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA.
World J Gastrointest Surg
December 2022
Department of Pathology, Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210022, Jiangsu Province, China.
Background: Tailgut cyst is a congenital enterogenous cyst that rarely undergoes malignant transformation. Its clinical manifestations mainly correlate to the mass effect caused by the development of cysts and the infections that originate from these. Furthermore, the complete resection of this cyst is curative.
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July 2022
General Surgery, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi, PAK.
A tailgut cyst (TGC) is a rare congenital lesion that occurs due to failure of involution of the distal hindgut, leading to the development of a mucus-secreting cyst. The clinical presentation is nonspecific, and often the diagnosis can be missed. We present the case of a 20-year-old female with a TGC in the perianal region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGhana Med J
March 2022
Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
Unlabelled: A tailgut cyst is a rare congenital lesion that develops from a residual posterior remnant of the intestine and presents as a mass in the presacral space. They are generally asymptomatic or have atypical symptoms, are usually benign but may rarely become malignant. We report a case of a 37-year-old female who initially presented to the Surgical Department of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana with a malignant tailgut cyst after having repeated surgical procedures for recurrent perianal infective pathologies but still had persistence of symptoms.
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