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what does it mean when you have a kidney ultrasound and a small cyst shows up?

is that like a tumor, is it cancerous, what do you think they'll do next? am i going to have to have a biopsy? just wondered, i just had it yesterday, and found out thru the patient portal thats what they found, i'll just wait to hear from my doctors

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  • 4 weeks ago

    Means nothing. They found one on me in a scan for something else. Just left it there. Never gave me any trouble.

  • 4 weeks ago

    A cyst is not cancer.

    It is a fluid filled sac, more like a pimple than a tumour.

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