[A simple kidney cyst in childhood].
OBJECTIVE
To report on a 6-year-old patient with an infected simple renal cyst.


RESULTS
A 6-year-old girl was admitted on three occasions for acute infectious syndrome and right lumboabdominal pain. The ultrasound scans showed a simple cyst in the right kidney which contained cellular elements. The patient was treated with antimicrobials on each occasion and the symptoms disappeared a few days later. On her third admission surgery was decided due to the recurrent clinical symptoms, a persistently high erythrocyte sedimentation rate and the presence of intracystic cellular elements, which raised the suspicion of intracystic abscess or tumor. The patient was submitted to surgery; the cyst was drained, resected and the internal wall marsupialized. The postoperative period was unremarkable and the patient is asymptomatic 10 months after surgery.


CONCLUSIONS
The case described herein is uncommon; to our knowledge, a similar case has not been reported in the literature.
Morales Concepción
J
J
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Pediátrico de Centro Habana, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.
Cordiés Jackson
E
E
Stuart León
M
M
Sandín Hernández
N
N
Payán Hernández
O
O
Cazorla Artiles
N
N
Rodríguez Castillo
R
R
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004754:Enterobacter; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D014463:Ultrasonography