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Bosniak classification: {| class="wikitable" |Grade |Description |Rate of malignancy |Follow-up |- |I |Simple benign cysts with hairline-thin walls. No septations, calcifications or solid components. No enhancing soft tissue components. |~0% |None None at all |- |II |Benign cystic lesions. The cysts may have hairline-thin septations with fine calcifications in the walls. Minimal enhancement of the hairline-thin smooth wall may be seen. No enhancing soft tissue components are present. Non-enhancing high-attenuation cysts <3cm in size are included. |~0% |None Really, none |- |IIF |Complex cysts requiring follow-up imaging. These cysts are more complex and do not fit into category II or III. These cysts have an increased number of hairline septations or mild thickening of the wall and/or septations. No enhancing soft tissue components are present. |~5% |1-2 years |- |III |Indeterminate masses. The cystic lesions have thickened walls and septations that are irregular. The cyst walls or septations demonstrate enhancement. |~50% |Biopsy |- |IV |Malignant cystic masses. Thick and irregular walls and septations may be present but enhancing soft tissue components are seen, independent of wall of septal enhancement. |~100% |Consider excision |} [[Category:Urology]]
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