A Case of Tailgut Cyst Associated with Malignant Findings

Mitsuyoshi Tei, Kimimasa Ikeda, Masashi Kitada, Masato Hanada* and Takashi Shimano

Department of Surgery and Department of Pathology*, Toyonaka Municipal Hospital

We report a very rare case of tailgut cyst associated with malignant findings. A 33-year-old woman was seen for metrorrhagia, in which a cystic pelvic tumor was found in ultrasonography and MRI. The tumor, located in the presacral space, adhered firmly to the coccyx. We resected the cystic tumor through a transabdominal approach. The pathological diagnosis was a tailgut cyst with mucinous carcinoma including epithelial cells.

Key words
tailgut cyst, presacral cyst, developmental cyst

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Mitsuyoshi Tei Department of Surgery, Toyonaka Municipal Hospital
4-14-1 Shibahara-cho, Toyonaka, 560-8565 JAPAN

Accepted
May 31, 2006

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