Tailgut cyst in a female infant with a skin dimple at the coccygeal region

A Case of Tailgut Cyst as a Subcutaneous Nodule at the Coccygeal Area

Vol. 28, No. 5, 2016 641 Received May 28, 2015, Revised August 19, 2015, Accepted for publication August 19, 2015 Corresponding author: Kwang Hyun Cho, Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University Hospital, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03080, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2072-2410, Fax: 82-2-742-7344, E-mail: khcho@ snu.ac.kr This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Crea...

Tailgut Cyst: a Case Report in a Female Neonate

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com MOJ Surg 2015, 2(2): 00016 the retrorectal or presacral space [4] and rarely in the perirenal area [2,3,5], the subcutaneous tissue in the anorectal region [6] and more rarely in the prerectal location. Microscopically, the tailgut cyst is characterized by the presence of a cysts lined with varying types of epithelium; columnar, mucin secreting epit...

A Sacro-Coccygeal Cyst

Tailgut Cyst in an Infant with Imperforate Anus: a Case Report

BACKGROUND Tailgut cyst (TGC) is a rare congenital lesion that originates from remnants of the embryonic post-anal gut. It presents as a multilocular presacral mass mainly in young women. Microscopically, the cyst lining is composed of different types of epithelium such as stratified squamous, transitional, or glandular. CASE PRESENTATION We present a term female newborn referred to our hospi...

Unusual Perirenal Location of a Tailgut Cyst

The authors describe a case in which a tailgut cyst occurred at an unusual location in a 22-year-old woman referred for abdominal discomfort and urinary frequency. The left abdomen contained a palpable mass, found at imaging studies to be a homogeneous, unilocular and cystic, and anterior to the left kidney. After surgical excision, it was shown to be a tailgut cyst.