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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1991; 14(1):103-106

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1991.14.1.103

Original Article

Aspiration and Sclerotherapy with 95% Ehtanol for Simple Renal Cyst

Bong Suck Shim, Young Yo Park

Copyright ⓒ 1991. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Renal cysts are usually asymptomatic. produce no harm to the kidney and require no treatment.

Percutaneous cystic puncture is performed only for specific indications including the diagnosis of cysts which are indeterminated with ultrasonography or computerized tomography, and the treatment of symptomatic cysts. But simple aspiration of renal cysts frequently recurred. so a combination of aspiration and sclerotherapy with variable materials can be used.

We treated 12 cases of renal cyst with aspiration and selerothrapy with 95% ethanol without specific complications the last 33 months period between January 1988 and September 1990. Major(91.7%) of cases showed remarkable reduction in size of renal cyst or disappearance of cyst on follow-up ultrasonography.

Therfore aspiration and selerotherapy with 95% ethanol is safe and efficient for the treatment of simple renal cyst.