Discal cysts--intraspinal cysts communicating with an adjacent intervertebral disc--are an uncommon cause of lumbar radiculopathy. We report a case of discal cyst of the lumbar spine. The cyst contents were bloody and clotted rapidly; no disc materials were seen. Communication between the cyst and the intervertebral disc was detected. Histopathology of the cyst wall revealed fibrous connective ...

The diskal cyst is a relatively new clinical entity and develops clinical symptoms of a unilateral single nerve root lesion. Although many cases of diskal cyst have been reported, the pathogenesis of diskal cyst remains unclear, and several theories regarding the pathogenesis have been proposed. This article presents 2 cases of diskal cyst communicating with an adjacent herniated disk. Magnetic...

The nasopalatine cyst is the most common epithelial and nonodontogenic cyst of the maxilla. The cyst originates from epithelial remnants from the nasopalatine duct. The cells may be activated spontaneously during life or are eventually stimulated by the irritating action of various agents (infection, etc.). It is different from a radicular cyst. The definite diagnosis should be based on clinica...

A 33-year old man developed gradually worsening dysphagia and dyspnoea over three months. Clinical examination was unremarkable. The chest xray showed a well defined soft tissue density mass in the middle mediastinum. The CT scan showed a well defined, non enhancing, subcarinal, retrocardiac, low density lesion (13.5×12×11.8 cm) compressing the oesophagus. There was no calcification. The possib...

Primordial odontogenic tumor (POT) is a rare characterized by variably cellular loose fibrous tissue with areas similar to the dental papilla and covered cuboidal columnar epithelium. We herein report case of POT in 14-year-old boy. Computed tomography (CT) exhibited round cavity defined cortical border circumscribing tooth second molar. However, gross finding was solid mass, not cyst. Histolog...

BACKGROUND Intracorneal epithelial cysts are a rare clinical condition that can occur anywhere in the corneal tissue; however, they appear most commonly in the stroma. They are sometimes challenging to treat because of their location, depth, and visual outcomes. Herein, we report a pre-Descemet epithelial cyst that was successfully treated surgically, with guidance from Fourier-domain optical c...

The author has experienced a case of microphthalmos with large orbital cyst in a 4 months old female, that was found at the time of birth. To facilitate fitting a cosmetic prosthesis, the microphthalmos with cyst was removed surgically. On serial section I could find an area of discontinuation of the sclera that was suspected to be the defective closure of the embryonic cleft. Some aberrant ret...

Five patients with hepatic (3), pelvic (1) or spinal (1) hydatid cysts received 10 mg/kg/d albendazole for 1-3 months prior to surgery. Daughter cysts were present in the spinal hydatid and in one patient with hepatic disease. Electron microscope examination of the cyst tissue of the pelvic and the 2 hepatic cysts lacking daughter cysts showed no evidence of germinal layer, and the protoscolece...

Thymic adenocarcinoma of the mediastinum is extremely rare. Only 12 cases adenocarcinoma associated with a thymic cyst have been reported in the literature. In this report, we describe a case of a thymic adenocarcinoma associated with thymic cyst. A 70-year-old man, presented with two months of chest tightness, breath shortness and chest pain. The contrast enhanced CT scan of chest revealed a r...

CONTEXT Generally, ectopic splenic tissue such as an accessory spleen is reported to have an incidence of 10% in the general population. However, an intrapancreatic accessory spleen has seldom been reported and cyst formation of the intrapancreatic accessory spleen is extremely rare. CASE REPORT A 26-year-old female patient with no clinical manifestations presented with a cyst in the tail of ...