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Table 5 Histopathological findings in 2 large reviews and a third group comprising 29 individual case reports

From: Median raphe cyst of the penis: a case report and review of the literature

 

Shao et al. [5]

Navalon-Monllor et al. [4]

Third group

Number of cases

56a

28

29

Type of epithelium

 Urethral

31 (55.4)

15 (54)

[37, 44]

[6]bX5

[7]bX5

Total: 12/29 (41.3)

 Epidermoid

3 (5.4)

2 (7)

[29, 33, 42]

Total: 3/29 (10.3)

 Glandular

2 (3.4)

[1]cX3

Total: 3/29 (10.3)

 Mixed

20 (35.7)

11 (39)

[7, 15, 20, 34, 40, 45, 59,60,61]

[18]dX2

Total: 11/29 (37.9)

Rare variants

 Ciliated

[16, 30, 31, 47, 56,57,58, 62] + our patient

 Pigmented

[10, 46, 50]

  1. Data in parentheses are percentages
  2. X: signify that this particular reference had reported that many number of MRC
  3. a55 Patients with 56 median raphe cysts
  4. bFive cases
  5. cThree cases
  6. dTwo cases