Analysis Of Clinical Diagnosis And Treatment Of Umbilical Cord Cyst(A Case Report And The Literature Review)

Objective To discuss the clinical diagnosis and therapy for umbilical cord cyst in China. Method One case was selected from the files of the Women's hospital of Medical College of Zhejiang University .And others had been diagnosised and reported in China from 1979 to 2006 in Chinese literature. All were analyzed retrospectively. Results In China 19 cases reported,the mean age of the pregnant women was 27.9 years old. The mean size of the cyst was 54 mm(range 20-120mm), 4 of 13 patients(4/13) were associated with poor pregnancy outcome(abnormality or stillbirth),when the umbilical cord cyst present single. Oppositely ,4 of 6 (4/6) multiple umbilical cord cysts were associated with poor pregnancy outcome. Conclusion The causation of how does the umbilical cord cyst form is unknown,may be relating to the fetal abnormality or aneuploidy. the best wayto diagnosis this illness is ultrasound ,and the umbilical cord cyst should be differentiated to hematoma and umbilical vein varix. There was no standard treatment of this entity. we should take detail examination of the fetus and scan the cyst repeatly when the umbilical cord cyst was detected.