Spontaneous Regression Of Renal Cysts
Urology 17(4): April 1981; 356-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-4295(81)90264-8
View Original Source →Abstract
Spontaneous regression of simple renal cysts is a rare phenomenon. Two cases diagnosed as renal cysts are reported in which later studies revealed these lesions to have disappeared.
Case Details
Personal Characteristics
A forty-two-year-old black woman
Clinical Characteristics
An intravenous pyelogram (ivp) revealed a mass in the lower pole of the right kidney. A nephrotomogram showed this to be cystic
Remission Characteristics
A repeat ivp showed findings of papillary necrosis but no evidence of a cystic lesion. A selective right renal arteriogram proved that the lesion was no longer present
Treatment & Mechanisms
Proposed Remission Mechanisms
Not discussed
Clinical Treatment
An abdominal hysterectomy was performed
Additional Notes
The patient died of chronic renal failure secondary to diabetic nephropathy five years later