Tailgut cyst: An uncommonly diagnosed common entity - A case report and review of literature.
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2014-01
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Abstract
Tailgut cysts (TGC) though relatively common are rarely diagnosed and
documented. Most of the times, they are misdiagnosed and mismanaged.
When malignancy develops in TGC it is rarely attributed to it as it is
undiagnosed earlier and later on there may not be any evidence left behind.
We report one such case which was diagnosed though not preoperatively.
Review of literature reveals only few such cases after the initial description
by Hjermstad and Helwig in 1988. Surprisingly most of the reports
especially the larger case series are by radiologists. Surgeons and
pathologists have contributed very few cases. This case report is aimed at
increasing the awareness about this entity so that it will be suspected,
investigated properly and treated before development of complications like
recurrent fistulae, ischioanal abscesses which increase the morbidity and
life threatening complications like malignant change.
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Tailgut cyst, retrorectal cystic hamartoma, developmental cysts, retrorectal space
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Agashe S, Killedar M, Jadhav V, Shivani A , Patil P. Tailgut cyst: An uncommonly diagnosed common entity - A case report and review of literature. International Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2014 Jan; 3(1): 358-362.