Introduction
Alimentary tract duplications are rare developmental anomalies that can occur anywhere in the intestinal tract. The definition was proposed that it is covered by flat muscles, has a gastrointestinal mucosa on the inner surface, and is in close contact with the part of the gastrointestinal tract. The first symptoms of rectal duplication are often constipation and abdominal distension, probably because of the exclusion of the intestinal tract.
Ladd and Gross described intestinal duplications in 1941, as having an attachment or adherence to some part of the gastrointestinal tract, the presence of a smooth muscle wall, and a mucosal lining with one or more cell types of the gastrointestinal tract(1). Rectal duplicate cysts are the least common among the gastrointestinal congenital cysts, forming only 4% of them(2), and they are known to derive from the hindgut(3).
Presentation in adult rare, usually they present in childhood with infection, fistulization or mass effects such as tenesmus, constipation, prolapse and urinary retention (4, 5). We herein report a case of an adult woman with rectal duplication cysts excision via robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery and its utility.