Corresponding author: Serghei Covantev ( kovantsev.s.d@gmail.com ) © Leonid Ravich, Leonid Khmylov, Alexey Romanenko, David Dolidze, Serghei Covantev. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Ravich L, Khmylov L, Romanenko A, Dolidze D, Covantev S (2021) A case of presacral teratoid cyst in an adult patient. Folia Medica 63(2): 287-291. https://doi.org/10.3897/folmed.63.e53524 |
Presacral teratoid cyst (PTC) is a congenital structural abnormality located in the pararectal area and containing tissues from different germ layers. Cases of diagnosis and treatment of PTC in adults are extremely rare and there is little information about the treatment tactics and prognosis. We describe a case of PTC in a 28-year-old woman, with a description of the diagnostic process, preoperative and postoperative management, as well as a brief review of the literature on this topic. A reconstructive surgery was performed on the perineum, including: parasacral access, excision of the presacral cyst together with removal of the coccyx and plastic of the opening. The postoperative observation of the patient was without complications.