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Renal cysts constitute the most commonly found benign lesions in adults during the diagnostic imaging: a renal cyst is detected in 10 % up to 50 % at abdominal ultrasound [1]. Also the prevalence of renal cysts is more than 50 % in adults 50 years old or older detected in autopsy studies [2].
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Misericordia, M., Tosti, E., Macchini, M., Galosi, A.B., Giuseppetti, G.M. (2017). Cystic Diseases of the Kidney. In: Martino, P., Galosi, A. (eds) Atlas of Ultrasonography in Urology, Andrology, and Nephrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40782-1_4
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