A giant retrovesical cystic mass: A rarest of rare with a management dilemma

A giant retrovesical cystic mass: A rarest of rare with a management dilemma

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A 32-year-old man investigated for subfertility and bladder outlet obstruction.He had a palpable pelvic mass and computerized tomography (CT) pelvis demonstrated Immune Support System that a large cystic mass (15cm) arising from right side seminal vesicle, and another small cyst from left side seminal vesicle with unilateral hydroureteronephrosis.Following a futile attempt of endoscopic drainage, mass was excised in toto via Scarves lower midline laparotomy.Pathological examination and immunocytochemistry confirmed the mass to be an extremely rare seminal vesicle Schwannoma.

To our knowledge, there are few unilateral seminal vesicle schwannomas reported in literature published in English language up to date.