BACKGROUND To investigate feasibility and safety of treating simple parapelvic renal cysts using flexible ureteroscopy with the Holmium laser. METHODS Between February 2010 and July 2013, a total of 21 patients, aging from 29 to 71 (49.00 ± 13.23), were diagnosed with parapelvic renal cysts by ultrasonography in combination with contrast-enhanced computer tomography (CT) and intravenous urogr...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to demonstrate OK- 432 sclerotherapy efficacy for treatment of simple renal cysts. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty patients with 25 symptomatic or large simple cysts were treated by ultrasonography (US)-guided percutaneous aspiration and injection of OK-432 (8 men and 12 women, mean age 63.6 years, SD 9.5). Six patients presented with flank pain, 14 presented wi...

PURPOSE Although angiogenesis has been implicated in the promotion of renal cyst growth in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, no studies have investigated the role of angiogenesis in the growth of simple renal cysts. The aim of current study was to investigate the effect of chemotherapy with the antivascular endothelial growth factor antibody bevacizumab on renal cyst development and...

BACKGROUND The simple renal cyst is the most common benign kidney disease. It may cause pain and hypertension, especially if significantly enlarged. As in polycystic kidney disease, blood cell count disturbances are frequently observed in simple renal cysts. The aim of our study was to assess such disturbances, changes in blood pressure, and complication rate in our patients undergoing surgery ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationships between simple renal cysts and arterial hypertension and whether their evacuation decreases the blood pressure (BP). METHODS In a cross-sectional design, we analyzed 184 study participants with cysts and compared hypertensive and nonhypertensive among them. Outcomes were the number, the size and the location of a cyst. In a cross-over design, we first e...

BACKGROUND To compare the efficacy and treatment session numbers of acetic acid to that of ethanol sclerotherapy for the treatment of simple renal cysts. Between February 2004 and June 2013, 86 patients with simple renal cysts underwent percutaneous aspiration and injection of 50 %-acetic-acid (42 cysts) and 95 %-ethanol (44 cysts). The patient demographics, volume reduction rate, number of tre...

symptomatic mullerian duct cysts are uncommon. a young adult male presented to us with a palpable supra-pubic mass, pain and lower urinary tract symptoms. initial imaging modalities showed a large cystic lesion in the pelvis with a non-visualized right kidney. a short, blind ending right ureter on retrograde pyelography added to the confusion. on exploration, the lesion was noted to be separate...