Novel Use of Robotic Surgery in a Rare Case of Canal of Nuck Cyst: A Case Report and Literature Review

04 October 2025 : Case report USA

Rare disease, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis)

Winnie Long^{ABCDEF 1}, Jamie Han^{ABE 1}, Luca Milone^{ADE 1*}

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.949239

Am J Case Rep 2025; 26:e949239

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Table 1 Case reports documenting a laparoscopic approach for the surgical management of canal of Nuck cysts, from the initial cases in 2014.

Publication Year	Publication	Age	Laterality	Size (cm)	Cyst type	Approach	Mesh	Pathology
2014	Qureshi []¹	28	Left	4×3	Type I	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2014	Matsumoto []⁶	37	Left	4.5	Type I	TEP	Yes	Hydrocele
2019	Chihara []⁷	38	Right	3×2.75	Type I	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2019	Kojima []⁹	43	Left	Unspecified	Type I	TEP	Yes	Hydrocele
2019	Shahid []¹⁰	36	Right	8.4×2.6	Type I	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2020	Fikatas []¹¹	29	Right	3×2	Type II	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2020	Fikatas []¹¹	29	Right	11.1×3.4	Type II	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2020	Fikatas []¹¹	44	Left	3×4	Type II	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2020	Fikatas []¹¹	41	Unspecified	Unspecified	Type III	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2020	Kohata []¹³	49	Right	5.5×3.4×9.5	Type III	TAPP + open	Yes	Hydrocele
2021	Wang []⁸	56	Left	4×3	Type I	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2021	Wang []¹²	28	Right	4×4	Type II	TAPP + open	No	Hydrocele
2022	Yardimci []³	38	Right	3.1×1.7	Type I	TEP	Yes	Hydrocele
2022	Tominaga []¹⁴	21	Left	12.3×8.5	Type I	TAPP	No	Hydrocele + Endometriosis
2024	Alghofeali []¹⁵	20	Right	3.8 ×3.3	Type I	TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
2024	Nimodia []¹⁶	31	Right	2.4×2.4×2.2	Type I	TAPP	No	Endometriosis
2024	Nakamura []¹⁷	53	Left	Unspecified	Type I	TAPP + open	Yes	Hydrocele
–	Our case	42	Left	4.6×1.7×2.4	Type I	robot-assisted TAPP	Yes	Hydrocele
TEP – totally extraperitoneal; TAPP – transabdominal preperitoneal.

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