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 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, […]
Many of you ask me to keep you updated on my patients, asking how they look after their surgeries. This gentleman had 3 cysts removed via punch excision, using a 4mm punch biopsy tool, about one month ago. This was a procedure done under local anesthesia, the cyst sac and internal contents were removed completely, […]
This is a cyst excision on the upper back, on a cyst that has been previously inflamed and had a small scar visible on an edge of the initial bump. This patient is darker complected, which is by the macerated keratin within the sac of this cyst is dark grey in color. The contents of […]