Renal cysts are divided into three types

Kidney cyst is caused by the kidneys and the outside does not communicate with the cystic lesions of the situation, the so-called "cystic lesions", meaning that some of the liquid containing liquid mass, renal cysts are generally small, how much less.

Generally we divided the renal cyst into the following three types

Simple renal cysts

The vast majority of renal cysts are benign, we call it simple renal cysts. Simple renal cysts can be single can also be multiple, generally no clinical symptoms, if the larger development of cysts or combined infection, we may have low back pain and other symptoms. Simple renal cysts slow development, generally does not affect renal function.

Polycystic kidney disease

Polycystic kidney and simple renal cysts, it is occurred in the kidneys of multiple cysts, a family history, is a congenital hereditary kidney disease. Generally in 35 to 40 years of age there are more obvious clinical symptoms, such as low back pain, hematuria, nocturia, proteinuria, high blood pressure, heart failure, and can be complicated by urinary tract infection, stones, obstruction and retroperitoneal hemorrhage, The possibility of malignancy.

Acquired renal cysts

This disease is mostly secondary to uremia or dialysis treatment, the incidence of the disease and age does not matter, and the duration of dialysis treatment. According to the literature, dialysis for more than 3 years of patients, most of them will appear renal cysts, and for the multiple, the diameter of about 3cm, these acquired renal cysts can also be infected and cause obvious clinical symptoms, and their malignant chance Higher than the polycystic kidney.