Seminal vesicle cyst and ipsilateral renal agenesis

Diagnosis and Management of Seminal Vesicle Cysts Associated with Ipsilateral Renal Agenesis: A Pooled Analysis of 52 Cases

“…A hemitrigone was described in 54% of the patients. This is considerably more often than reported by Campbell, who found a hemitrigone in 24 patients among 248 cases of unilateral renal agenesis, as mentioned by Donohue and Greenslade [49]. In 1 patient an ectopic ureteral orifice was discovered at the bladder neck during cystoscopy [51].…”

“…Renal agenesis or dysgenesis is found in 10% of the Müllerian duct cysts [55, 56]. Prostatic cysts are small and contain no sperm [49], they can be recognized by transrectal ultrasonography, as can a diverticulum of the ejaculatory duct, since these cysts are located in the prostate and are smaller than seminal vesicle cysts. Other lesions that might mimic a seminal vesicle cyst are: a walled-off abscess in the cul-de-sac from a leaking colon diverticulum, a malignant lesion of the rectum involving the bladder and a leiomyoma of the bladder wall with degenerative changes [14].…”

“…One patient died after the operation due to a pelvic infection in the preantibiotic era [24]. Other postoperative complications were: orchitis [1], urinary retention [49] and tachycardia [50]. …”

“…We collected 42 case reports from the literature describing 51 males with seminal vesicle cysts and ipsilateral renal agenesis [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52]. One patient who presented in our clinic was included in the analysis: the total number of patients was 52.…”

“…Furthermore, it contains no sperm. To evaluate this, a puncture of the cyst is necessary [49, 54]. Renal agenesis or dysgenesis is found in 10% of the Müllerian duct cysts [55, 56].…”