Re-introduction to Big Blackheads on the Back
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Re-introduction to Big Blackheads on the Back

It’s Throwback Thursday, and I’ll be featuring a past patient every now and then on Thursdays! I’ll include updates for you on the patient’s condition and may also include bonus footage! For my first Throwback Thursday, I want to reintroduce you to my lovely patient who has quite large blackheads on her back. Many of […]
Inflamed cyst AND back blackheads aka Favre racouchot
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Inflamed cyst AND back blackheads aka Favre racouchot

This patient has an epidermoid cyst which has recently become inflamed and “infected”. I put “infected” in quotes, because technically this is not an infection: When an epidermoid cyst ruptures, it creates a vigorous foreign body inflammatory response – this skin becomes warm, tender, painful, and swells, simulating an abscess. Incision and Drainage (I & […]
Punch excision of a neck cyst. For medical education- NSFE.
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Punch excision of a neck cyst. For medical education- NSFE.

For medical education- NSFE. So I removed this cyst from that back of this man’s neck today. I numbed the area up with lidocaine before doing this procedure. I also used a marker to mark the outside border of the cyst, because when the numbing medication can distort/swell the area, making it more difficult to […]