RETRORECTAL CYSTS OF DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGIN

Clinical Study and Review of Articles (Korean) about Retrorectal Developmental Cysts in Adults

PURPOSE A retrorectal developmental cyst (tailgut cyst, epidermoid cyst, dermoid cyst, teratoma, and duplication) is very rare disease, and the symptoms are not characteristic so that sometimes this disease is still misdiagnosed as a supralevator abscess or a complex anal fistula. We would like to present a clinical approach to this disease. METHODS We retrospectively examined the charts of 1...

How to Treat Retrorectal Cysts or Tumors in Adult

VP. Tumors of the retrorectal space. Dis Colon Rectum 2005;48: 1964-74. 2. Kye BH, Kim HJ, Cho HM, Chin HM, Kim JG. Clinicopathological features of retrorectal tumors in adults: 9 years of experience in a single institution. J Korean Surg Soc 2011;81:122-7. 3. Lee BH, Park HC, Lee HW, An CN, Um T, Lim YA, et al. Transsacral local resection as a posterior approach. J Korean Soc Coloproctol 2010;...

Mediastinal cysts of bronchial origin.

Congenital cystic disease of the lungs has already been widely studied and described. In 1936 Schenck reviewed the literature up to that date. He says: "That pulmonary cystic disease is due to a developmental error or anomaly is now generally admitted, although many factors in the precise mechanism of its genesis are still unknown. The cyst wall may have the characteristics of bronchi, bronchio...

Origin of orbital blood cysts.

The origin of blood cysts as presented in the ophthalmic literature may be summarized as follows: (i) Blood cysts without epithelial or endothelial lining most probably result from the I937; Svoboda, I948). The orbital haematoma may result from trauma, blood disease, or strain that increases the pressure in the jugular veins. As there are no valves in these veins, this unobstructed pressure is ...

Two Cysts of Unusual Origin