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What do you advise if doctor found large simple cyst kidney?

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Dr. James Lin answered

Do nothing for ...: If a kidney cyst has been clinically and radiographically proven to be benign, just leave it alone to coexist with life as long as it clinically behaves with no size-related symptoms or no superimposed infection or bleeding especially in the elderly.

Answered 5/11/2014

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