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[Treatment of renal cysts by percutaneous drainage and alcoholization. Our experience]
G Bianchi1, S Cavalleri, A D'Amico
1Cattedra di Urologia, Università degli Studi di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, Italie.
Abstract:
Since many years renal cysts have been treated by percutaneous puncture and successive aspiration. The introduction of various sclerosing substances has been associated with this manoeuvre. In our study we examined 44 patients with renal cysts submitted to percutaneous puncture, aspiration and injection with 95% ethanol. We thought right to leave a small pig tail catheter so that the sclerosing substance could be easily and completely eliminated allowing the adhesion of the cystic walls in the following days, without any accumulation of cystic and/or exudative liquid. The follow up (12-24 months) has shown no relapsing in 40/44 cases. Only in 4 patients a cyst was present, but with dimensions lower than 30% of the original volume.