Infected urchus cyst in a teenage girl

Parisa Rahmani; Bahar Ashjaee; Fatemeh Zamani; Parastoo Sharifi

doi:10.1016/j.eucr.2021.101988

Infected urchus cyst in a teenage girl

Urol Case Rep. 2021 Dec 22:41:101988. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2021.101988. eCollection 2022 Mar.

Authors

Parisa Rahmani¹, Bahar Ashjaee², Fatemeh Zamani³, Parastoo Sharifi¹

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research Center, Children's Medical Center, Pediatric Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
² Department of Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Radiology, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

We report the case of a 16-year-old girl who complained of stomach discomfort. She's been on medical therapy for roughly 6 months after being diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Magnetic resonance enterography confirmed the diagnosis of an infected urachal cyst, and she eventually had surgery. The removed material had a significant chronic inflammatory and foreign body type granulomatous response, according to histology. Because urachal cyst is an uncommon disease, early identification requires a high level of suspicion, and urachal cyst should be included in the differential diagnosis.

Keywords: Abdominal pain; CT, computed tomography; DWI, diffusion weighted imaging; Embryologics; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; Urachal cyst.

Publication types

Case Reports