symptomatic mullerian duct cysts are uncommon. a young adult male presented to us with a palpable supra-pubic mass, pain and lower urinary tract symptoms. initial imaging modalities showed a large cystic lesion in the pelvis with a non-visualized right kidney. a short, blind ending right ureter on retrograde pyelography added to the confusion. on exploration, the lesion was noted to be separate...

Congenital agenesis of the uterine cervix and vagina in the presence of a functional endometrium is an extremely rare mullerian anomaly [1]. Congenital vaginal agenesis occurs with a prevalence of 1/4000-1/5000 live-born females, while the accurate incidence of cervicovaginal agenesis is controversial [1-3]. Cervicovaginal agenesis is usually not diagnosed until menarche. It is manifested by th...

CONTEXT Complete agenesis of the dorsal pancreas is an unusual congenital anomaly. Nowadays, the diagnosis is based on four imaging studies: transabdominal ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and, the gold-standard, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Sometimes the ability of these studies are limited to distinguishing agenesis of the do...

COMPLETE or partial agenesis of the corpus callosum is uncommon especially in adults; the incidence amongst patients in institutions where numerous air encephalograms are performed is 3% (Carpenter and Drukemiller, 1953). Reil (1812) published the first report of a case, describing the necropsy findings in a 30 year old woman of low mentality; further cases discovered at necropsy were subsequen...

Agenesis of the spleen has for many years been held to be extremely rare, and of interest only to the morbid anatomist. Since it was shown (Gasser and Willi, 1952; Willi and Gasser, 1955) that diagnosis in vivo is possible, interest in the lesion, and in the cardiac anomalies usually found with it, has increased. This paper records the incidence of splenic agenesis, and of the closely allied co...

BACKGROUND Agenesis of permanent canines is an uncommon condition that affects human teeth. In fact, canine is the most variable positioned tooth, it can be found palatally or facially displaced or ectopically erupted from the dental arch. On the contrary, canine agenesis is a rare finding in Caucasian populations, but it may be relatively more common in Asian groups. This dental anomaly is fir...

Agenesis of the paranasal sinuses is an uncommon clinical condition that appears mainly in the frontal (12%) and maxillary (5-6%) sinuses; in some populations, it appears at a higher proportion. This study investigated the prevalence of agenesis of the frontal sinuses using dental volumetric tomography (DVT) in Turkish individuals. The frontal sinuses of 410 patients were examined by DVT scans ...

The unilateral agenesis and/or absence of ipsilateral fallopian tube and ovary (adnexa) is rare and rarely described in the literature. The esteemed incidence is 1:11.240 [1,3]. The etiology is not clear: ipsilateral tubal and ovarian absence could be caused by the torsion of ovarian peduncle before birth or before puberty [2,3]. Adnexa agenesis is always associated to uterine and to urinary ap...

Internal carotid artery (ICA) agenesis is a rare developmental anomaly and is most frequently asymptomatic, but it may also present as cerebrovascular accidents. The association with Horner's syndrome is exceptional. We present three cases of agenesis of ICA associated with Horner's syndrome and hypochromia iridum presenting as focal neurological symptoms. A system of collaterals develops as a ...