Mucinous adenocarcinoma of a tailgut cyst.
| Autor: | Kumassah PK; Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana., Bediako-Bowan AAA; Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.; Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, Accra, Ghana., Agboadoh N; Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana., Mensah YB; Department of Radiology, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, Accra, Ghana., Dakubo JC; Department of Surgery, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.; Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, Accra, Ghana. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Ghana medical journal [Ghana Med J] 2022 Mar; Vol. 56 (1), pp. 46-50. |
| DOI: | 10.4314/gmj.v56i1.8 |
| Abstrakt: | 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. The lesion was initially excised and found to be a dermoid cyst histologically. The mass recurred after a year and had a re-excision; the lesion was diagnosed histologically as mucinous adenocarcinoma. This report emphasizes the different forms of presentation of a patient with a tailgut cyst and the possibility of malignant transformation, as well as the presentation of this tailgut cyst which can be diagnosed using radiological investigations and histological findings. Funding: None. Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: None declared (Copyright © The Author(s).) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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