Methods for Locating the Pores of Epidermal Cysts

Vol. 27, No. 1, 2015 111 Received April 1, 2014, Accepted for publication April 14, 2014 Corresponding author: Kapsok Li, Department of Dermatology, Chung-Ang University Hospital, 102 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-755, Korea. Tel: 82-2-6299-1525, Fax: 82-2-823-1049, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fig. 1. Pinch method. (A) On pinching the skin with the thumb and index finger, the pore of the cyst becomes deeper and wider. (B) An easy case: An already visible pore of a cyst (top panel) is made more prominent by using the pinching maneuver. (C) A challenging case: The pore is difficult to identify on the basis of gross appearance (top panel). However, the pore becomes visible after pinching (arrowhead). http://dx.doi.org/10.5021/ad.2015.27.1.111