[Cysts of the kidney--their therapeutic management]

In patients presenting pain syndrome, hypertension obstruction of the pyelocaliceal system or kidney-cyst-induced ureteral compression, operative intervention should be by all means considered (A. Gelet 1990, L. Kavoussi 1991). Over the period 1983 through 1992, 400 patients with solitary and multiple cysts and polycystic condition of the kidneys (polycystosis) representing 1.13 percent of the total number of admissions, are subjected to treatment in the Clinical Center of Urology--Alexandrovska University Hospital. The series includes 196 men and 204 women; percutaneous puncture is performed in 245 cases, and operative intervention--in fifty-four. Twenty-five patients are reoperated, eight undergo three operations, and two--manifold repeated operations. Recurrent cysts are recorded in 35 instances. One patient of the contingent, admitted with ruptured cyst of the only kidney and peritonitis, dies after the operation.