Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family of genetic disorders that causes clusters of cysts to form on the kidney, is among the most common genetic disorders, affecting some 500,000 people in the ...

Wade then explained how the next steps were more complicated than a simple series of follow-up tests. "What I had on my kidney was a cyst — a tumor. But, it was not (something) that could be ...

The tumours were simple cysts, papillary cystadenomas ... barely visible to large growths which included almost the entire kidney (Fig. 1). The material consisted of a number of individuals ...