March is National Kidney Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about the difference between two kidney disorders — kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease. Your kidneys are situated in ...

Q. During a pelvic ultrasound to evaluate uterine fibroids, a radiologist found a cyst in one of my kidneys. Should I be concerned about kidney cancer? A. Kidney (or renal) cysts are fluid-filled sacs ...

Renal cysts occur in a variety of genetic diseases in adults and children, but "simple renal cysts" are commonly observed in normal kidneys. They are so common, it is difficult to consider them a ...

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) afflicts as many as two million people around the world, affecting multiple organs, including lungs, brain, skin, and kidneys. In about 80 percent of cases, it causes ...

Q I am a 55-year-old man and had an abdominal ultrasound scan last week because of vague upper abdominal discomfort. My general practitioner has told me that I have a four centimetre cyst in my kidney ...

What Is a Kidney Cyst? There are different kinds of kidney cysts. A simple kidney cyst is a round pouch of smooth, thin-walled tissue or a closed pocket that is usually filled with fluid. One or more ...

Tuberous sclerosis complex and von Hippel–Lindau disease are distinct autosomal dominant tumor suppressor syndromes that can exhibit similar renal phenotypes and seem to share some signaling pathway ...

In work suggesting a new approach to treating polycystic kidney disease, a leading cause of kidney failure, researchers were able to block the formation of fluid-filled cysts, the hallmark of the ...

A 47-year-old woman after right-sided nephrectomy due to bleeding angiomyolipoma, with CKD stage G3bA2, hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, epilepsy was admitted to our department to continue the ...

We present an unusual case in which a family presented with both ADPKD and TSC, and surprisingly had neither TSC2 nor PKD1 gene mutations. In 1975 the proband (III-5) (Fig. 1) presented at the age of ...

The finding of an incidental kidney lesion may result in anxiety and uncertainty for the patient and their clinician, raising concerns about the significance and immediate and future management. The ...