Kidney Cyst Vs Abscess. The technicians all thought it was an abscess but then the specialist came along and said it was a cyst. Though both abscess and cyst are sac like structures containing fluids enclosed by walls abscess forms due to an infection or a foreign body and cyst forms spontaneously.
Renal abscess is a collection of infective fluid in the kidney. Ultrasonically both look the same. 1 microscopic renal abscess is rare and can cause renal failure.
Simple kidney cysts complex kidney cysts and polycystic kidney disease pkd.
It is usually a sequela of acute pyelonephritis where severe vasospasm and inflammation may occasionally result in liquefactive necrosis and abscess formation. He also saw me for follow up appts and said the cyst shrank cysts do not shrink normally and that it shouldn t hurt it does. You might have a single cyst on one. Cyst vs abscess.