Kidney Cyst Bosniak 3 Treatment. If a kidney lesion is a solid mass particularly one that picks up blood and thus enhances on contrast ct it is considered malignant until proven otherwise. Treatments for cysts that cause signs and symptoms.
Nowadays most urologists would recommend a kidney sparing approach known as partial nephrectomy toward excision of such potentially cancerous cysts if these are less than 4cm in size. If the cyst is small and doesn t cause any problems with your kidneys you might not need to treat it. Then the fluid is drained from the cyst.
It may show a few hairline thin septa with small or short segment calcification in the cyst wall septa.
Then the fluid is drained from the cyst. Rarely to shrink the cyst your doctor inserts a long thin needle through your skin and through the wall of the kidney cyst. A bosniak ii cyst is minimally complicated. A bosniak i cyst is a simple cyst which has a hairline thin wall without calcifications septations or enhancement.