© 2001-05, DermAtlas | Image Name: | giant_open_comedone_1_050909 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | COMEDONES, OPEN / CYST, EPIDEMERMAL INCLUSION / CYST, EPIDERMAL | Category: | lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) | ||
| Body Site: | buttock | Age: | 68 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | 2 cm brown flat topped nodule extending beneath the surrounding skin | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 68-year-old woman complained of an irritated nodule on her left buttock. The griant comedone shelled out with a currette leaving a large cystic space with a broad opening. | ||||
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© 2001-05, DermAtlas | Image Name: | giant_open_comedone_2_050909 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | COMEDONES, OPEN / CYST, EPIDEMERMAL INCLUSION / CYST, EPIDERMAL | Category: | lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) | ||
| Body Site: | buttock | Age: | 68 years | ||
| Contributor: | Bernard Cohen, MD | ||||
| Description: | 2 cm brown keratinaceous nodule | ||||
| Comments: | This healthy 68-year-old woman complained of an irritated nodule on her left buttock. The griant comedone shelled out with a currette leaving a large cystic space with a broad opening. | ||||
| Related Images: | giant_open_comedone_1_050909 | ||||
© 2001-05, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Keratinous_cyst_neck_1_050418 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | CYST, EPIDERMAL / CYST | Category: | lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) / infections and infestations | ||
| Body Site: | neck | Age: | 34 years | ||
| Contributor: | Franco Fulciniti, MD, PhD | ||||
| Description: | tender red subcutaneous 5 cm mass | ||||
| Comments: | This 34-year-old man developed a painful mass on the back of his neck. The lesion responded to warm compresses, incision and drainage, and oral antibiotics. | ||||
© 2001-05, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Sebaceous_Cysts_Vulva_1_050124 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | CYST, EPIDERMAL | Category: | lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) | ||
| Body Site: | vulva (labia) / genital | Age: | 17 years | ||
| Contributor: | Sugathan Paramoo, MD | ||||
| Description: | multiple bilateral skin colored to yellow firm 2-4 mm papules | ||||
| Comments: | This 17-year-old woman complained of vulvar pruritus for 2 years at the onset of her puberty. She had irregular and ineffective treatment from Ayurvedic Practitioners. Multiple custs were noted, and her symptoms improved with topical compresses and oral antibiotics. The cysts were subsequently successfully electrocauterized. On examination there were multiple cysts on the labia majora on each side and there were few showing signs of inflammation. She was advised a course of antibiotics and warm condy's sitz bath for a week and when the returned the lesions were treated by electrocautery. She was advised regular follow up. | ||||
© 2001-05, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Cyst_epidermal_1_040104 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | CYST, EPIDERMAL | Category: | lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) | ||
| Body Site: | scrotum | Age: | 25 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | multiple yellowish-white nodules | ||||
| Comments: | This 25-year-old sexually active man presented with multiple asymptomatic firm round yellowish-white mobile nodules on the scrotum. Some of the lesions had a central punctum from which a cheesy material could be expressed. | ||||
| Related Images: | All related Images Cyst_epidermal_3_040104 Cyst_epidermal_2_040104 | ||||
© 2001-05, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Cyst_epidermal_2_040104 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | CYST, EPIDERMAL | Category: | lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) | ||
| Body Site: | scrotum | Age: | 25 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | multiple yellowish-white nodules | ||||
| Comments: | This 25-year-old sexually active man presented with multiple asymptomatic firm round yellowish-white mobile nodules on the scrotum. Some of the lesions had a central punctum from which a cheesy material could be expressed. | ||||
| Related Images: | All related Images Cyst_epidermal_3_040104 Cyst_epidermal_1_040104 | ||||
© 2001-05, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Cyst_epidermal_3_040104 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | CYST, EPIDERMAL | Category: | lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) | ||
| Body Site: | scrotum | Age: | 25 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | multiple yellowish-white nodules | ||||
| Comments: | This 25-year-old sexually active man presented with multiple asymptomatic firm round yellowish-white mobile nodules on the scrotum. Some of the lesions had a central punctum from which a cheesy material could be expressed. | ||||
| Related Images: | All related Images Cyst_epidermal_2_040104 Cyst_epidermal_1_040104 | ||||
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Bernard A. Cohen, MD, Christoph U. Lehmann, MD
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