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Epidermal Cyst
(Epidermoid Cyst; Epidermal Inclusion Cyst; Epithelial Cyst; Keratin Cyst; Sebaceous Cyst)
by Marjorie Montemayor-Quellenberg, MA ...
Alternate Names : Epidermal cyst, Keratin cyst, Epidermoid cyst
Definition
A sebaceous cyst is a closed sac under the skin filled with a cheese-like or oily material.
The epidermal cyst sac is filled with a soft, whitish brown material that sometimes oozes out onto the skin's surface. This material, which is keratinous debris (dead skin cells), smells like rotten cheese.
Pilar cyst
Pilar cysts ...
Sebaceous cysts (epidermal cysts) may be a foreign term to you, but many women have indeed experienced them -- perhaps without really knowing what they were at the time.
Basal nuclei, Deficiencies, Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase, Endonexin II, Epidermal Cyst, Fetanol, Flumazenil, Follow Up Studies, Formalin, Glial Cell Tumors, Glycerol Teichoic Acids, Glycerophosphorylcholine, Hallucination, Elementary, ...
Conditions resembling simple cutaneous abscesses include hidradenitis suppurativa (see Bacterial Skin Infections: Hidradenitis Suppurativa) and ruptured epidermal cysts.
Osteomas are sometimes found in association with other diseases, such as polyps, fibromatous lesions of the connective tissue, or epidermal cysts (Gardner's syndrome).
Autosomal dominant variant of familial adenomatous polyposis, caused by mutations in the APC gene. Features include multiple premalignant colon polyps, benign bone exostoses, epidermal cysts, dermoid tumours, fibromas and neurofibromas.
 See also: Sebaceous cyst, Cancer, Abscess, Trauma, Dental
  
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