title: Renal tuberculosis presenting as a complicated renal cyst.
abstract: A 74-year-old woman presented with a 3-day history of fever and left flank pain. The imaging study revealed a huge complicated cyst in the left kidney. The cyst had a mass effect to the abdomen. We performed laparoscopic renal cyst unroofing. The histopathologic examination disclosed renal tuberculosis of the cyst wall and cystic fluid. Renal tuberculosis is not uncommon; however, renal tuberculosis presenting as a renal cyst is very rare.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Li-Hua
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Mei-Chin
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Siu-Wan
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Ya-Tze
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Hsiau
authors.forename: Chen-Li
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Chi-Rei
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jian-Ri
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D052177:Kidney Diseases, Cystic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014398:Tuberculosis, Renal / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*