Upper Abdominal Primary Retroperitoneal Cyst with Unusual Urothelial Histogenesis - An Uncommon Presentation Masquerading as a Hepatic Cyst

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Ahmad Alkhasawneh Arun Gopinath Brett Baskovich Civan Altunkaynak Noor Marji Ziad Awad

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Arun Gopinath
Department of Pathology, University of Florida college of Medicine Jacksonville Jacksonville, FL, USA

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Background: Benign retroperitoneal cysts are uncommon. There is a paucity of literature on primary upper abdominal retroperitoneal cysts of urothelial histogenesis. We report an uncommon presentation of urothelial cyst clinically mimicking a hepatic cyst. Case presentation: A 21-year old female patient was admitted with intermittent abdominal pain of 9 months duration diagnosed on radiology as a right hepatic cyst. Laparoscopic resection and pathologic examination revealed a primary retroperitoneal cyst with a urothelial histogenesis. This is an unusual clinical presentation of a rare lesion mimicking a hepatic cyst. Conclusion: This case highlights the unusual anatomic location and the rare occurrence of an upper abdominal retroperitoneal urothelial cyst.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 17, Dec 2019
Accepted: Fri 03, Jan 2020
Published: Thu 23, Jan 2020

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© 2023 Arun Gopinath. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.01.01