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LETTER TO THE EDITOR—BRIEF COMMUNICATION| Volume 159, ISSUE 1, P233-234, November 2011

Laparoscopic treatment of a tailgut cyst

      We herein report the laparoscopic management of a rare developmental retrorectal tumor: a tailgut cyst.
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