Imaging of kidney cysts and cystic kidney diseases in children. Consensus paper by an ad hoc committee

Cystic nephropathies in childhood can present with focal pathology (simple and complex kidney cysts), affecting a whole kidney (e.g. multicystic dysplastic kidney, cystic dysplasia), or both kidneys (e.g. autosomal recessive and dominant polycystic kidney disease). In contrast to adults genetic diseases (e.g. HNF1b disease, tuberous sclerosis complex, Bardet-Biedl syndrome and other ciliopathies) are much more frequent than acquired cystic...