label: Meconium pseudocyst
label_lc: meconium pseudocyst
description: "A meconium-containing cyst in the peritoneal space . Meconium pseudocysts form in the presence of meconium peritonitis, which is defined as a sterile peritonitis caused by escape of meconium from the intestinal tract into the general peritoneal cavity during the fetal or perinatal period. When the extruded meconium becomes walled off, it can form a rim-calcified mass representing the meconium pseudocyst."