For medical education- NSFE. She is so sweet to let us film the removal of her pilar cysts. She has a few of them, and this one is the biggest. They are benign, but they are bumpy and can be embarrassing. They are fun to remove because they are a challenge to pop out whole […]
For medical education- NSFE. She came in yesterday for a skin exam and mentioned she hated these bumps she felt on her face so I offered to remove them for free if she wouldn’t mind if I videotaped it for you all. She obliged and was so happy to get rid of them. She can’t […]
For medical education- NSFE. Had to just squeeze this cyst out because it was so superficial, but it’s important to remove the entire sac so that it won’t grow back. source
For medical education- NSFE. This patient has an epidermoid cyst on the back, which has bothered her for many years, mainly because of the appearance. She was very self conscious and didn’t like people to touch her on her upper back. Here, I remove the cyst completely, attempting to remove it out a relatively small […]
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 […]
For medical education- NSFE. There is a glitch in the previously uploaded video, so this one should be better to view. Also, some questions have been asked about the amount of bleeding during this procedure. This patient has more sebaceous/thicker skin than the average person, and her milia are pretty deep under her thicker skin. […]
For medical education- NSFE. Extracting comedones caused by excess sun exposure, a condition called Favre-Racouchot. These comedones can be difficult to extract and I needed to numb the areas and I also used an 11 blade to break the superficial skin surface first to extract many of them. Enjoy! source