Open AccessAn exceedingly rare type of renal cyst: amoebic cyst
Author(s) -
Orhan Özbek,
Kemal Ödev,
Yalçın Solak,
B. Fevzioglu,
İbrahim Güler
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
qjm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1460-2725
pISSN - 1460-2393
DOI - 10.1093/qjmed/hcs005
Subject(s) - medicine , cyst , kidney , abdominal pain , quadrant (abdomen) , radiology , surgery
A 70-year-old male patient with a history of metastatic lung cancer and type-2 diabetes mellitus presented with a complaint of right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Ultrasound showed a septated renal cyst in the right kidney. Abdominal computed tomography confirmed the presence of a septated cyst measuring 98 × 83 mm in the right kidney with calcifications on the cyst …
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