1. Ciliated Cyst of the Perineal Skin
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Angelo Sidoni and Emilio Bucciarelli
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Male ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Epidermal Cyst ,Dermatology ,General Medicine ,Anatomy ,Middle Aged ,Biology ,medicine.disease ,Skin Diseases ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Perineum ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,parasitic diseases ,Cutaneous ciliated cyst ,medicine ,Humans ,Cyst ,Cilia ,Cutaneous cyst ,Cloacal membrane ,Skin pathology ,Ciliated epithelium ,Skin - Abstract
Cutaneous cysts lined by ciliated epithelium are very rare, benign tumors predominantly occurring on the lower extremities of young women. We describe a ciliated cyst found in the perineum of a 60-year-old man. The location and histological features led us to attribute a primitive tailgut origin to this cyst, probably from the embryonic remnants of cloacal membrane. Only two previous examples of similar cysts were found in the literature.
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- 1997
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