Hi Dr Watters, you have helped us before and we are asking your opinion again, thank you in advance! My 21 year old daughter had a lap chole 8/14/12. If you possibly could remember, she had had a Nissen 11/11, a pyloroplasy 6/12 and then had a hyerkinetic GB with an EF of 94%. You agreed with a chole and you were right. After the chole she did well with resolution of the GB symptoms and pain, yet she had alot of umbilical pain. This was ths 1st surgery the umbilicus was used. Immed post op for 2 days, she had a little difficulty urinating, no big deal. Still lots of umbilical pain and also leaking fluid, yellow brown color, sm amts that crusted until cleaned and then appeared again. Surgeon thought poss. an uracal cyst was present. Fluid finally stopped this week, however severe pain in the umbilical area is still there. Taking percocet/vicodin to keep it tolerable. MRI with and w/o contrast was normal. CBCD,CMP,UA,PT/PTT, ESR all completely normal. Abd US done today, awaiting results. What is your take on this? Have you seen these cysts in your practice? She still occas. c/o difficulty urinating. The cyst idea makes sense but why doesn't it appear on MRI? Does she need another surgery to explore and remove a cyst if present? She is a college student, working a part time job and trying to endure this huge amoun of pain. Any suggestions? Any advice is appreciated.I know something must done to help her. Her surgeon is leaning toward laparoscopic exploration and removal of the cyst if present. He did say that he has not done this procedure previously, but we trust him. Thank you for your help.