A dermoid cyst is a fluid-filled sac near the surface of the skin that may have also hair, skin, or other tissues inside. These cysts form during a baby’s development before birth and usually need ...

There are different types of pilonidal cyst surgery. One involves cutting the cyst to drain the fluid, while another involves removing the cyst completely. Depending on the surgery type, a person can ...

Doctors can drain a ganglion cyst with a needle and syringe. They can also surgically remove the cyst. Although surgery lowers the chance that the cyst will return, it can cause lasting pain and ...

If an ovarian cyst is left untreated, it will usually resolve on its own. However, a solid or partially solid cyst may need to be evaluated by a lab to make sure it isn’t cancerous. While most ovarian ...

Tennis star Serena Williams shared in a TikTok posted on Tuesday that she had a cyst removed from her neck—one the size of a "small grapefruit." “One day, back in May actually, I found this big mass ...

In Dr. Pimple Popper's new Instagram video, she squeezed out a "painful" and infected cyst on her patient's back. Dr. Pimple Popper used her fingers to squeeze every last bit of oozing goo out of the ...

Talk about having a full stomach. Doctors in India revulsed the internet after removing hundreds of different-sized cysts from a woman’s stomach. Her gastrointestinal interlopers turned out to be ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD An ingrown hair cyst looks like a small red bump and often causes no pain.You can treat ingrown hair cysts at home by keeping the area clean and using a warm ...

The Bartholin glands sit on either side of the vagina and make lubricating fluid. When these glands get blocked, fluid can back up in them and form a Bartholin cyst. Bartholin cysts are often small ...

Your daughter's cyst sounds like a thyroglossal duct cyst. This is a defect which is present from birth but does not show itself until later in childhood, most commonly in preschools aged children or ...

A woman in Australia was found to have a cyst full of tapeworm eggs in her brain after having suffered from headaches for about a week. Doctors say this is the first case of an Australian catching the ...