Prenatal diagnosis of choledochal cyst: A case report

• Main Authors: Tongprasert F., Traisrisilp K., Tongsong T.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-83255187366&partnerID=40&md5=040cc5078195abf4677afbdfce613bea; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21688273; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/2647
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Choledochal cyst is one of the intra-abdominal abnormalities of the biliary ducts that present as a cystic mass in the right upper quadrant abdomen. Prenatal diagnosis has been achieved by the demonstration of a connection between a dilated common bile duct and a cystic lesion. In this report, we describe a pregnant woman in whom routine fetal anomaly scan strongly suggested a choledochal cyst at 29 weeks of gestation by demonstrating a round cystic mass in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, completely separated from the stomach, bowel loops, and gall bladder, and which showed a connection with the dilated common bile duct. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.