This man asked me about this small bump on the center of his chest. You can’t see it well, but you can feel it. He has a small epidermoid cyst in the area, that I removed today, via punch biopsy tool. An epidermoid cyst is also called a sebaceous cyst, and is a benign growth, […]

This is a lovely patient of mine, who recently completed chemotherapy and radiation treatments due to breast cancer. She noticed this lump on her cheek that has grown quite rapidly in the last year. I don’t think this cyst appearance or growth is directly related to her recent breast cancer diagnosis or treatment, but I […]

This patient is one of the first patients that I have filmed with blackheads on the back. Posted her first video about 6 months ago. She comes in twice a year for skin cancer monitoring. I didn’t have to convince her too much to undergo another set of blackhead extractions. She would do it herself, […]

This patient has an epidermoid cyst (aka a sebaceous cyst) on her right axilla/armpit. A little local anesthesia was placed before a punch biopsy tool was used to allow me to express the cyst contents and remove the entire sac. As you know, these growths are benign and don’t need to be removed for any […]

This lovely patient of mind has a lipoma on the right Inguinal area (right inner thigh right at the crease). She was told my her primary care doc that this is a benign growth (which is correct) and that it didn’t need to be removed. However, she hates that the lump is visible when she […]

This patient has a filiform verruca on his right lower lip, aka a wart. “Filiform” just describes the shape, since it’s long and thin, projecting from the surface of the skin A wart is caused by a virus, so they can be easy to remove (sometimes not so easy), but they can reoccur. This is […]

A Dilated Pore of Winer, is essentially a giant blackhead. I extract this one today, and it leaves a dilated pore which will shrink to some degree, but likely won’t entirely go away. We plan to see her again in the near future, and if she doesn’t like the appearance, or if it tends to […]

This patient was seen by one of our Physician Assistants today, Erin, and she noticed he had an epidermoid cyst that he didn’t like on his left anterior shoulder. I had a few minutes between patients, so I was able to remove it, and video tape it for you all to see. An epidermoid cyst […]

This is the patient you have seen last week, who had a scar/mole removed from her chin, and during that visit, I treat to extract blackheads from her nose, but they were extremely stubborn. So, this time, I used forceps/ tweezers to pluck the keratin filaments which very pretty adherent to the nose, and many […]

This patient has a pilomatricoma, aka a calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe, which is commonly a solitary but mobile growth under the skin which is most often confused to be an epidermoid cyst. These are benign growths, not painful or uncomfortable. I was suspicious it was a pilomatricoma when I removed it because of it’s firmness, […]