Seminal vesicle cyst associated with ipsilateral renal agenesis

Congenital Cyst of the Seminal Vesicle

“…These findings may be similar to those found in cases of shallow ureterocele [1-7, 10, 11, 13, 14]. Other reported diagnostic resources include contrast studies of the vas deferens [3,7,10], surgical exploration [5,9,10,12], transperineal aspiration of the cyst [7,8] and endoscopic resection of the cyst wall [2]. Recently, ultrasound exploration [1,13] and computer ized tomography have been used.…”

“…Clinical complaints of patients with seminal vesicle cysts are related to increased bladder irritability presenting as dysuria, fre quency and urgency [3,5,7,8,11], perineal pain [3,10,11,13,14], epididymitis [2,4,7,8,11], pain on ejaculation [3,10,11,14], fever …”

“…Also, this last approach does not allow easy access to the ectopic ureter or to the usually small abnormal kidney. Needle aspiration produces immediate relief of presenting symptomatology, but recurrences have been reported [3,8]. Endo scopic resection has been sporadically used [14], During surgical exploration, only the cyst may be found [3,7,9,11,13], In other cases, a ureter draining into the seminal vesicle may be identified [ 1,2,4,10], sometimes also associated with renal hypoplasia [11],…”

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

“…In 3 patients the aspiration was done for diagnostic purposes and these patients underwent surgery afterwards [4, 35, 36]. Three patients suffered recurrence after initial aspiration and underwent surgery [19, 38, 45]. One patient underwent transurethral deroofing of the cyst because of recurrence after aspiration, resulting in a residual cavity in the bladder on the postoperative CT scan [26].…”

“…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.…”