Paediatric Presacral Masses

Adapted from Kocaoglu and Frush, 2006¹

• Paediatric Presacral Mass
  • Congenital and developmental masses
    • Germ cell tumours
      • Sacrococcygeal teratoma
        Most common presacral germ cell tumour and most common non-CNS teratoma
      • Germinomatous and nongerminomatous germ cell tumors
      • Anterior sacral meningocele
      • Developmental cysts
        • Epidermoid cyst
        • Dermoid cyst
        • Enteric cysts
        • Rectal duplication cyst
        • Tail-gut cyst
      • Cystic lymphangioma
      • Lipoma
  • Neurogenic masses
    • Neuroblastoma
    • Ganglioneuroblastoma
    • Ganglioneuroma
    • Neurofibroma
    • Schwannoma
  • Inflammatory masses
    • Inflammatory bowel disease
      • Ulcerative colitis
      • Crohn disease
    • Perirectal abscess
    • Granuloma
  • Mesenchymal masses
    • Rhabdomyosarcoma and undifferentiated sarcoma
    • Vascular mass
    • Fibroma
  • Lymphomatous masses
    • Lymphoma (usually non-Hodgkin)
    • Posttransplantation lymphomatous disorder
    • Extension of sacral bone tumours
    • Giant cell tumour
    • Aneurysmal bone cyst
    • Chordoma
    • Osteoblastoma
    • Ewing sarcoma family
    • Osteogenic sarcoma
  • Other presacral masses
    • Haematoma
    • Extension or metastasis to the presacral space from another site

Notes

References

1. Kocaoglu, M. and Frush, D.P., 2006. Pediatric presacral masses. Radiographics, 26(3), pp.833-857. ↩︎