Korean J Radiol.  2008 Jul;9(Suppl):S73-S76. 10.3348/kjr.2008.9.s.s73.

Chronic Infection of a Seminal Vesicle Cyst as Depicted on MR Imaging

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China. yangzg1117@yahoo.com.cn
  • 2Department of Pathology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Chronic infection of a seminal vesicle cyst is an extremely rare disorder worldwide. To date, only two cases, which were diagnosed initially by the use of contrast-enhanced CT or non-enhanced MR imaging, have been reported in the literature. We report here a case of a 78-year-old man with chronic infection of a seminal vesicle cyst to illustrate the usefulness of the pelvic contrast-enhanced MRI in making a definitive diagnosis of the rare disorder. In addition, a brief review of the relevant literature is presented.

Keyword

Chronic infection; Seminal vesicle; Cyst; Magnetic resonance (MR)

MeSH Terms

Aged
Chronic Disease
Cysts/*diagnosis
Genital Diseases, Male/*diagnosis
Humans
Infection/diagnosis
*Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
*Seminal Vesicles

Figure

  • Fig. 1 Seminal vesicle cyst infection in 78-year-old man. A-D. Pelvic MRI demonstrates that cystic wall of lesion in left seminal vesicle is irregularly thick, and it is enhanced markedly and inhomogenous on axial, coronal and sagittal T1-weighted enhanced images (A-C) (white arrows), as compared with depiction on axial T1-weighted image (D) (black arrow). E. Photomicrography of histological specimen shows inflammatory corpuscles composed of lymphocytes, neutrophilic leukocytes and plasmocytes (×40).


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