OBJECTIVE To present the results of our ten-year case series in simple hepatic and renal cysts sclerosis using minocycline hydrochloride as a sclerotizing agent, evaluating the effectiveness, the safety and the feasibility of this agent for percutaneous sclerotherapy for symptomatic cysts. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated our archives of patients treated (54 patients with 60 ...

BACKGROUND / OBJECTIVE The availability and use of abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography for diagnostic purposes has led to frequent detection of asymptomatic renal cysts. Recent evidence suggests their association with hypertension. The aim of our study was to evaluate the presence of simple renal cysts in patients with hypertension and prehypertension. METHODS In a hospital base...

BACKGROUND Early detection and interventions have enabled patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) to live well into adulthood. Consequently, the chronicity of SCD allows for the insidious manifestation of multisystem complications, including renal damage. Cystic renal lesions are commonly incidentally discovered on ultrasound and computerised tomography (CT) imaging of the abdomen. Most are ben...

B n i g n r e n a l n e o p l a s m s c o n s t i t u t e a l a r g e a n d heterogeneous group of lesions which include the simple renal cysts (SRCs), selected complex r e n a l c y s t s , c o r t i c a l a n d metanephric angiomyolipoma, oncocytoma, the rarer cyst ic nephroma, mixed epithel ia l / stromal tumor and leiomyoma, as well as other, even more esoteric tumor types. SRCs are discret...

PURPOSE To investigate the prevalence of simple renal cysts in an adult health-screening cohort, and to evaluate clinical characteristics, associated risk factors and the natural course. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between April and November 2008, a thousand individuals diagnosed with simple renal cyst by ultrasonography in a check-up program were chart-reviewed for demographic-clinical characteris...

INTRODUCTION Simple renal cysts are mostly benign and asymptomatic disease and managed conservatively. Renal cell carcinomas (RCC) sometimes presents as a cystic tumor. At least 4-15 % of renal tumors encountered are cyst-associated renal cell carcinoma (CRCC). (1) Findings suggestive of malignancy in a renal cyst include thickened, irregular or smooth walls or septa, and enhancement after cont...

Simple renal cysts are commonly observed and asymptomatic in the majority of patients. These cysts are usually located peripherally and are unnoticed unless they grow large enough to cause pain by impinging on the kidney.1 In contrast to the simple cyst, the peripelvic renal cyst is contiguous to the renal pelvis and infrequently observed.1 Often peripelvic cysts either stem from an embryologic...

An apparent causal association between crizotinib treatment and renal cyst development emerged during clinical trials in anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Serious adverse event (SAE) reports of renal cysts from a safety database of 1375 patients from four clinical trials were reviewed. A blinded, retrospective, independent radiologic review (IRR) was ...