title: Multilocular renal lesions--a diagnostic challenge.
abstract: We present six patients with benign cystic lesions of the kidneys and one with a cystic carcinoma with preoperative diagnostic difficulties. Despite the advent of modern imaging techniques and aspiration cytology there are no unequivocally reliable diagnostic signs of benignity in multilocular renal lesions. Therefore surgery is recommended as the therapy of choice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Turku University Hospital, Finland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alanen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nurmi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ekfors
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography