SOLITARY CYST OF THE KIDNEY

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Abstract
The extremely interesting and relatively rare condition of solitary cyst of the kidney has been the subject of renewed interest during the past seven or eight years. In a previous article, published in 1920, I1reported a case and reviewed forty-seven cases found in the literature that were reported after the publication of Simon's paper. He was able to collect only fifty-two case reports. An unusually interesting group of papers has appeared on this topic more or less recently, among which may be mentioned those by Fullerton, Harpster, Herrick, Kirwin, McKim and Smith, O'Neil, Quinby, George Gilbert Smith, and Swarz. Recently Carson 2 reported four cases. His review of the literature and the four cases in his paper bring the total number of cases on record up to 145. The 5 cases to be reported in this paper bring the total to 150. Of interest as well as of

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