Thyroglossal duct cyst presents most frequently in the midline of the neck, either at or just below the level of the hyoid bone. They generally manifest as painless neck swelling, and they move on protrusion of tongue and during swallowing. A case of thyroglossal cyst was reported in the left submandibular region in a 14-year-old girl, above the level of hyoid bone; ultrasound examination favor...

Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for hydatid cyst, but the development of antihelminths has become a boon in the management of the disease. The role of medical management is now well defined, alone or with surgery or percutaneous aspiration, injection and re-aspiration (PAIR). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of antihelminth treatment on 16 selected patients (10 females and ...

The article by Arce and others was helpful. However, in cases of giant splenic hydatid cyst, splenectomy or partial splenectomy is generally considered the preferred treatment rather than removal of the cyst, as reported by Rashid and others. If there is more than one cyst, a large cyst, a cyst in a deep organ location, or an infected cyst, open surgery should be done. I agree with Arce and oth...

The aim of the present study is to evaluate cyst wall and protoscolex as an alternate source of antigen in serodiagnosis of cystic echinococcosis (CE). A total of 90 blood samples, 30 each of confirmed CE cases, disease controls and healthy controls were collected. Dot-ELISA using cyst wall, protoscolex and cyst fluid were used to demonstrate anti-hydatid antibodies. The sensitivity of Dot-ELIS...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the eruption speed and rate of angulation change of a cyst-associated mandibular second premolar after marsupialization of a dentigerous cyst in preadolescents. Premolars on the cyst and noncyst sides and size of the cyst were retrospectively examined with a total of 42 pairs of normalized panoramic radiographs in 20 patients who underwent neither ex...

A 62-year-old male developed a solitary asymptomatic nodule on the lateral aspect of the distal interphalangeal joint of the right great toe. Histopathologic findings demonstrated a myxoid cyst with a concomitant epidermal inclusion cyst. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of concurrent occurrence of digital myxoid cyst and epidermal inclusion cyst. Although the exact mechanis...

Abbreviations: aCSC, Atavistic Cancer Stem Cell; aCLS, Atavistic Cyst Like Structure; siCLS, Stress Induced aCLS; caSPCL, Carcinogenic Stem/Progenitor Cell Lineage; MGs, Multicelullar Genes; UGs, Unicellular Genes; DSBs, DNA Double Strand Breacks; DDR, DNA Damage Response Mechanism; nPGCC, Native Polyploidy Giant Cancer Cell; siPGCC, Stress Induced PGCC; gPGCC, Genotoxic Induced PGCC; ATD cyst,...

Introduction A ganglion cyst can induce symptoms around the knee and should be considered as an intra-articular mass in differential diagnosis. Case Presentation A 22-year-old female presented with a persistent medial knee joint pain in her left knee for 2 years. There was soft tissue swelling on the anteromedial aspect of the infrapatellar region on her left knee. Lachman and McMurray tests ...

Median raphe cyst is a rare lesion located on the median raphe. The cyst wall is lined by cuboidal to columnar cells, transitional (urothelial) cells, stratified squamous cells or a mixture of these. The normal urethral mucosa and the median raphe cyst usually lack melanocytes and/or melanin pigment. However, albeit extremely rare, the presence of melanin pigment and/or melanocytes in median ra...