Tailgut Cyst A case report.

, Ahn, Byeong Yul; , Jeong, Choon Sik; , Lee, Dong Hee; , Yu, Chang Sik; , Lee, Ho Jung; , Lee, Moon Kyu; , Kim, Jin Cheon

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology 1998;14(3):617-620.

Ahn, Byeong Yul , Jeong, Choon Sik , Lee, Dong Hee , Yu, Chang Sik , Lee, Ho Jung , Lee, Moon Kyu , Kim, Jin Cheon

Abstract

Tailgut cyst is a rare congenital lesion in retrorectal space. The clinical significance of tailgut cyst presents its morbidity that occurs in the unrecognized and incompletely treated lesion. A forty four year-old female patient visited with lower abdominal pain during defecation. Preoperative abdominopelvic MRI and endorectal ultrasonography revealed a retrorectal mass suggestive of leiomyoma, dermoid cyst, teratoma, or duplication cyst of rectum. She underwent complete resection of retrorectal mass by transsphincteric approach. The mass was multilocular cyst lined by multiple types of epithelium. It was histologically confirmed as a tailgut cyst. She recovered uneventfully. This report includes the case and a brief review of tailgut cyst.

Key Words: Tailgut cyst; Congenital cyst; Retrorectal cyst