Clinical History
A 54 year old gentleman with hypercholesterolaemia.
Diagnosis: Mullerian prostatic cyst.
Comment :
Ultrasound shows a well defined smooth roundish unilocular cystic lesion seen in bladder base in midline. No colour Doppler flow signal is seen within this lesion. Prostate is not enlarged. CT shows a cystic lesion indenting on the bladder base, likely extra-vesical and arising from the anterosuperior aspect of midline of prostate.
Mullerian prostatic cyst is a congenital midline cystic structure which is developmentally derived from the Mullerian ducts. A paramedian location has been reported. The cyst usually extends above the base of the prostate.On either endorectal ultrasound, CT or MRI, a midline or paramedian cystic structure, extending above the base of the prostate gland, is virtually pathognomonic.
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