Despite the relatively high rate of high-grade disease in resected cystic lesions, AS with or without delayed intervention appears safe and effective for most radiographically cystic renal masses.

Polycystic kidney disease and medullary cystic kidney: Patients with polycystic kidney disease, both adult and infantile types, may have cystic lesions in the pancreas. 232 Rarely, patients with ...

Multiple cysts are more common with increasing age but can cause diagnostic confusion with a range of multi-cystic kidney diseases. The commonest of these is autosomal dominant polycystic kidney ...

Left renal cystic masses were identified in 32 patients; the remaining 35 patients had right renal cystic masses. The masses were located in the upper pole in 24 patients, the lower pole in 28 ...

A minority of small renal masses are solid masses or complex cystic masses, show contrast enhancement on CT images, and are suggestive of cancer.

Cystic renal cell carcinoma is a rare type of cancer. A person may develop cystic renal cell carcinoma if they have treatment for the last stages of kidney failure.

The differential diagnoses for CRCC include RCC with cystic change, hereditary leiomyomatosis manifesting as a cystic renal lesion, cystic nephroma, clear cell papillary RCC, and other cystic ...

There are various types of kidney masses, and their causes, symptoms, and treatments will differ. For example, a cyst on the kidney most commonly indicates a simple fluid-filled cyst.

Potential living kidney donors have a number of different incidentally detected lesions found when they undergo multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) during donor assessment, a new study found.

344 Background: To evaluate outcomes, complications and costs associated with management of Bosniak IIF, III, and IV cystic renal lesions/malignancies. Methods: An IRB-approved HIPAA-compliant ...

Active surveillance of small renal masses appears to be safe, but if intervention does become necessary, what should trigger it? "We now know that with at least 10 years of data that active ...