Asymptomatic mucous cysts may not require treatment. When treatment is desired, the approaches include aspiration, electrocautery, chemical cautery, steroid injection, and various types of ...

Nabothian cysts are cysts filled with mucus that look like tiny bumps on the surface of the cervix. They are usually 2 millimeters to 10 millimeters in diameter, and they contain mucus that ranges ...

People are also reading… Treatment here can be: 1) neglect (no cancer here, no sirree); 2) puncturing the cyst with a sterile needle and squeezing out the mucus whenever it puffs up; 3) opening ...

A mucocele is a mucus cyst produced by extravasation of salivary secretion due to the rupture of a salivary gland duct, or salivary retention within an accessory salivary gland, due to duct ...

Treatment Digital mucous cysts are histologically benign and do not need to be removed. However, if they become painful patients may opt for removal. There are several approaches to the removal of ...

First described as “synovial lesions of the skin” by Markin and Jones in 1880 and by Hyde in 1883, 1-3 these cysts are known by various names, including mucoid cysts, mucous cyst of the finger ...

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The TC develops superficial to the superior constrictor muscle of the pharynx and is covered by the mucous membrane of the nasopharynx. TC is relatively uncommon, with a prevalence rate of 0.2% to 4%.