Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine

Case Reports

Enterogenous Cyst of the Testis.: Sang Chul Nam, Man Hoon Han, Seok Jun Ye, Tae Gyun Kwon, Bup Wan Kim, Ghil Suk Yoon; Korean J Pathol. 2007;41(4):271-273.

Abstract PDF: We present a rare case of an enterogenous cyst of the testis in a 21-year-old man. On ultrasonography, an ovoid hypoechoic solid mass (2x2x1.5 cm) was confined to the right testis. The left testis and bilateral epididymis were within normal limits. Grossly, the tumor was a unilocular cystic mass, without a solid component. Microscopically, the cystic mass was composed of mucin-secreting simple columnar epithelial lining cells, lamina propria and a well-differentiated muscularis propria. There was no evidence of any germ cell derivatives or neoplasia in the cystic mass and in the surrounding testicular parenchyma. Immunohistochemistry showed a positive reaction for cytokeratin and the epithelial membrane antigen in the epithelial lining; in addition, it was positive for smooth muscle actin in the well-differentiated muscularis propria.

Spinal Enterogenous Cyst: A report of a case.: Ki Hwa Yang, Kyo Young Lee, Young Sup Park, Seok Jin Kang, Byoung Kee Kim, Sun Moo Kim; Korean J Pathol. 1989;23(4):490-493.

Abstract PDF: Although varying types of cystic lesion, true to false, in the spinal cord have been described, spinal enterogenous cyst is a rare condition. It is considered as a result of congenital remnant of primitive foregut. The authors experienced a case of a spinal enterogenous cyst in the intradural space along the fouth, fifth and sixth cervical spine, occurred in a twenty-seven years old male patient. The cyst was composed of hyalinized fibrous wall with single layered lining epithelium, such as simple non-ciliated cuboidal epithelium or ciliated tall columnar epithelium with focal mucinous columnar epithelium.

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