the benign appearance, may contain malicious elements or potentiality for malignant degeneration in the medium term, and the risk of infection in benign cysts. This patient was discharged on the seventh postoperative day, with uneventful recovery. The resection of the coccyx is not recommended unless there is suspicion of involvement by malignant disease 3. As far as rectum is often densely adh...

Transrectal access still has some unsolved issues such as spatial orientation, infection, access and site closure. This study presents a simple technique to perform transcolonic access with survival in a swine model series. A new technique for NOTES perirectal access to perform retroperitoneoscopy, peritoneoscopy, liver and lymphnode biopsies was performed in 6 pigs, using Totally NOTES techniq...

BACKGROUND Retrorectal cystic hamartomas, or tailgut cysts, are rare congenital lesions that typically present as presacral masses. These lesions are frequently clinically unrecognized and misdiagnosed. Malignant change is extremely rare. Only 10 additional cases with associated malignancy were recovered from the literature. We describe the clinicopathologic features of 5 cases, including 2 cas...

Les tumeurs rétro rectales kystiques et solides sont très variées et rare chez l'adulte. Elles sont dominées par les chordomes qui sont des tumeurs à malignité locale essentiellement observées chez les sujets de sexe masculin, alors les tumeurs kystiques vestigiales, sont souvent bénignes et prédominante chez la femme. Ces kystes congénitaux sont souvent asymptomatiques. L'apparition de symptôm...