Zinner's syndrome: clinical features and imaging diagnosis

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（3）
• 页码范围: 316-317
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.4103/aja.aja_21_17

摘要

Dear Editor, Zinner's syndrome is an uncommon urogenital malformation of congenital seminal vesicle cyst associated with ipsilateral renal agenesis.It is considered to be the anomaly development in early embryogenesis affecting the distal part of Mullerian duct? After the initial report by Zinner in 1914,2 fewer than 100 cases have been reported in literature? On the basis of a children research in Taipei,the incidence of seminal vesicle cyst with ipsilateral renal agenesis was 0.0046％ (13/280 000).1 For symptomatic patients,an integrated and accurate diagnosis from radiologists can benefit clinicians' therapeutic decision-making.And for those young patients,finding the potential cause of obstructive azoospermia early can promote an early management.Therefore,our study aimed to summarize the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of this case series to draw attention of either urologists or radiologists,thus avoiding the misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis in clinics or even preventing the unnecessary invasive examination for this disease.