Cystic nephroma: A case report in adult patients

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Cystic nephroma is an unusual, cystic neoplasm of the kidney and is usually benign. There are two peaksin the incidence of the tumor, with a bimodal distribution presenting in children younger than two yearsold and in adults. These benign lesions are usually seen in childhood, whose clinical presentation isnonspecific with symptoms such as flank pain, hematuria and urinary tract infection. We aim to reporttreatment, and follow-up of a 48-year-old female patient with cystic nephroma for whom we performedopen partial nephrectomy. As a surgical treatment radical or partial nephrectomy is applied according tothe size and position of the masses. Long-term follow-up is recommended to rule out local recurrence ormetastasis.