Epidermoid cyst of the cecum.
An epidermoid cyst of the cecum is extremely rare; only eight cases have been reported in the literature. A 63-year-old woman was admitted to Kyung Hee University Medical Center with a colonic mass that had been discovered incidentally during a regular health check-up. The radiographic impression was that this mass was a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. During surgery, an exophytic mass in the cecal wall was resected by using an ileocecectomy. Based on the macroscopic and the microscopic findings, this case was identified as an epidermoid cyst of the cecal wall. We report this case to discuss the origin of this entity and the unusual nature of our case.
Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Jae-Young
JY
Park
Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Youn Wha
YW
Kim
Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Kil Yeon
KY
Lee
Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Ji-Youn
JY
Sung
Cecum; Epidermoid cyst