The procedure is more often used for complex cysts with changes that may be cancer. Surgery is rarely performed for simple cysts. Then the walls of the cyst are cut or burned away. While watching a video monitor in the operating room, the surgeon guides the tools to the kidney and uses them to drain the fluid from the cyst.
#Kidney sonogram skin#
To access the cyst, a surgeon makes several small incisions in your skin and inserts special tools and a small video camera. A large cyst that's causing symptoms may require surgery. Then the fluid is drained from the cyst and filled with a solution to prevent it from reforming. Rarely, to shrink the cyst, a long, thin needle may be inserted through your skin and through the wall of the kidney cyst. Alcohol or a chemical compound may be used as the solution. The solution causes scarring and helps prevent the cyst from filling with fluid again. Piercing and draining the cyst, then filling it with a solution. If a simple kidney cyst is causing symptoms, your health care provider may recommend treatment. Sometimes a simple kidney cyst goes away on its own. If your kidney cyst changes and causes symptoms, you may choose to have treatment at that time. Instead, your health care provider may recommend that you have imaging tests, such as ultrasounds, over time to see whether your kidney cyst changes.
If a simple kidney cyst causes no symptoms and doesn't affect kidney function, you may not need treatment.
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