title: A completely isolated intestinal duplication cyst mimicking ovarian cyst torsion in an adult.
abstract: Intestinal duplications are rare congenital anomalies that can occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract. They are most commonly located in the ileum and are usually detected in infancy or early childhood. Duplicated segments are usually firmly attached to and sometimes communicate with the normal gastrointestinal tract. Rarely, intestinal duplications are completely isolated, thus not associated at all with any part of the gastrointestinal tract. Such duplications do not share a common blood supply with the adjacent normal intestinal segment, unlike the usual form of duplication, but rather have a separate vascular pedicle. Reports of completely isolated duplication cysts in adults are extremely rare; we found only five such reports in the English-language medical literature. Here, we report a case of a completely isolated duplication cyst 12 cm long in an adult female. The cyst had no connection to any part of the intestinal tract and had a dedicated vascular pedicle.
authors.affiliation: Jae Young Park, Medical course, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju 690-767, South Korea.
authors.forename: Jae Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Jae Young Park, Medical course, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju 690-767, South Korea.
authors.forename: Kyu-Hee
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Her
authors.affiliation: Jae Young Park, Medical course, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju 690-767, South Korea.
authors.forename: Bong Soo
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Jae Young Park, Medical course, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju 690-767, South Korea.
authors.forename: Young Hee
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Maeng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D003560:Cysts / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D007082:Ileum / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D010048:Ovarian Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014102:Torsion Abnormality / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Adult; Congenital abnormalities; Cysts; Digestive system; Duplication