"Look Before You Leap": Urachal Mass in Adults
Bargavee Venkat1, Sudhir Kale1, Sathish Kumar B V Reddy2
1Department of Radiology and Imaging, Aster CMI Hospital, Bengaluru, India.
Abstract:
Diseases of the urachal remnant can present at any age. Urachal adenocarcinoma is the most frequent cause of urachal mass in adults, albeit infected urachal cyst constitutes a significant number. Lack of typical clinical and imaging findings combined with absence of definitive guidelines makes evaluation of urachal mass in adults very challenging. We present a case of a 58-year-old man presenting with an urachal mass with overlapping clinical and imaging findings mimicking urachal malignancy which later turned out to be an infected urachal cyst.
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