SONOGRAPHY
OF CYSTIC
RENAL
MASSES
by OKSANA H. BALTAROWICH, M.D.
Jefferson Ultrasound Research & Education Institute
We gratefully acknowledge support of this project by the Open Society Institute-New York
RENAL CYSTIC MASSES
•Benign
•Malignant
RENAL CYST
•Anechoic mass
•Smooth, thin wall
•Well-defined back wall
•Acoustic enhancement
STRICT CRITERIA
RENAL CYST
1.Renal carcinoma in a cyst
2.Cystic renal carcinoma
3.Cystic degeneration in
renal carcinoma
REASONS FOR STRICT CRITERIA
MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY
•Unilateral abnormality
•Reniform-shaped mass
•Non-communicating cysts
•Atretic ureter
• Incidence of contralateral renal
anomaly
AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT PCKD
•50% have no family history
•Symptoms by age 40 - 50
–age range: fetus to 90’s
•Hypertension, hematuria,
flank pain, mass,
renal failure
•Cysts in other organs
–Liver 50%
–Pancreas 5-10%
–Cerebral (berry) aneurysms 20%
•Complications
–Hemorrhage
–Infection
–Calculi
AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT PCKD
L
K
•Dilation & hyperplasia of
collecting tubules
•Variable expression of disease
–age, severity
–involvement of kidney, liver
•Classification
–Perinatal-Infantile
–Neonatal-Juvenile
AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE PCKD
ACQUIRED CYSTIC DISEASE
•Patients on chronic renal dialysis
•Cysts appear within 3 years
•Some with renal failure not on
dialysis
•Small, echogenic kidneys
•Complication : hemorrhage into cysts
MULTILOCULAR CYSTIC NEPHROMA
•Multiloculated, encapsulated mass with
echogenic septations
•Young boys, older women
•Considered benign
•Reported recurrences, distant
metastases, rapid growth
•Multilocular cyst of the kidney
•Cystic adenoma
•Benign cystic differentiated
nephroblastoma
•Well-differentiated polycystic Wilm’s
tumor
•Lymphangioma
MULTILOCULAR CYSTIC NEPHROMA