title: Renal cystic diseases: a review.
abstract: This review aims to assist in the categorization of inherited, developmental, and acquired cystic disease of the kidney as well as to provide a pertinent, up-to-date bibliography. The conditions included are autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease, autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease, unilateral renal cystic disease (localized cystic disease), renal simple cysts, multicystic dysplastic kidney, pluricystic kidney of the multiple malformation syndromes, juvenile nephronophthisis and medullary cystic disease, medullary sponge kidney, primary glomerulocystic kidney disease, and glomerulocystic kidney associated with several systemic disorders mainly of genetic or chromosomal etiology, cystic kidney in tuberous sclerosis, and in von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, cystic nephroma, cystic variant of congenital mesoblastic nephroma, mixed epithelial stromal tumor of the kidney, renal lymphangioma, pyelocalyceal cyst, peripylic cyst and perinephric pseudocyst, acquired renal cystic disease of long-term dialysis, and cystic renal cell carcinoma and sarcoma. Whereas the gross and histologic appearance of some of these conditions may be diagnostic, clinical and sometimes molecular studies may be necessary to define other types.
authors.affiliation: Division of Anatomic Pathology, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, I-71013 San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy. bismi@libero.it
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bisceglia
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Galliani
authors.forename: Christof
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Senger
authors.forename: Carmine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stallone
authors.forename: Adalberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sessa
mesh_terms: D005820:Genetic Testing; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011859:Radiography; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014463:Ultrasonography