GIANT ADRENAL CYST IN THE NEWBORN - PERINATAL DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT

Routine ultrasound examination in a pregnant 20-year-old woman at 32 w eeks demonstrated a cystic structure in the fetal abdomen. Follow-up t ill term showed no substantial change in size. After birth the cyst co uld easily be palpated as an epigastric mass. Ultrasonography followed by a barium meal suggested, among other things, the diagnosis of gast ric duplication. At exploratory laparotomy the cyst proved to be of ad renal origin. The diagnosis and therapeutic options are discussed.