Ciliated foregut cysts are rare anomalies due to aberrant embryological development. Only a small number of gallbladder ciliated foregut cysts have been reported. We report the case of a 29-year-old woman presenting with epigastric pain associated with diarrhoea and vomiting, who was found to have raised serum bilirubin levels and abnormal liver function tests. Following a diagnostic pathway in...

Histopathological study of the endoscopically resected specimen revealed the presence of a unilocular cystic lesion under the rectal mucosa (Figure 1A). Smooth muscle bundles were recognized around the entire cyst (Figure 1A), and no connection with surface rectal mucosa was noted. The cyst wall was covered by pseudostratified ciliated epithelium (Figure 1B), and accumulation of neutrophils was...

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Surgical ciliated cyst is uncommon in Western countries but frequently reported in Asian populations as a delayed complication of surgery, with inclusion in the bone of nasal or sinus mucosa. Isolated cases have also been reported in the mandible after orthognathic surgery. We report a case in the maxillary region three years after radical sinus surgery for chronic sinusitis. Intraoral examinat...

© 2009 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0626 Journal Compilation © 2009 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Sir, Cutaneous ciliated cysts are rare benign lesions predominantly occurring on the lower extremities of young women. The morphological similarity of the cyst lining cells to the epithelium of Fallopian tubes suggests their Müllerian origin (1, 2). We present here a case of cuta...

Ciliated foregut cyst of gallbladder is a very rare benign cystic lesion. A 39-year-old woman was referred to our hospital after abdominal ultrasonography revealed a cystic lesion of gallbladder. On abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography, a unilocular cystic lesion was found at right upper quadrant with attachment to the gallbladder neck. The gallbladder with cystic lesion was resect...

Pancreatic cysts include inflammatory pseudocysts, cystic tumors (serous and mucinous), and various rare cystic lesions. We report a case of a ciliated enteric duplication cyst that presented on computed tomographic scan as a pancreatic cystic neoplasm. Cyst fluid analysis revealed markedly increased concentrations of carcinoembryonic antigen and CA 125 and increased fluid viscosity. These feat...

Sir, Cases of cutaneous cysts lined by ciliated epithelium have rarely been documented, and only a few cases of such cysts in the vulvar vestibulae have been reported (1–3). The origin of the cysts is controversial because the location is so anatomically specific. In this report, we describe a 14-year-old girl with a ciliated cyst of the vulva (CCV), the lining cells of which were positive for ...