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 ...

A kidney cyst is a fluid-filled sac that grows in your kidneys, which are the bean-shaped organs that filter wastes out of your bloodstream to produce urine. You may have a single cyst or many – on ...

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 ...

Diagnosis of cystic kidney diseases requires a thorough clinical workup, taking into account not only kidney size and cyst localization, but also extrarenal manifestations The utility of genetic ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a new paper published in the journal Molecules, alum Cassandra Millet-Boureima (MSc 19) and Chiara Gamberi, affiliate assistant professor of biology, write that melatonin was found to reduce cysts ...