Have you ever had any personal experience of dermoid cysts?

The association of dermoid cysts with pregnancy has been increasingly reported.

Only a handful of cases involving dermoid cysts located here are reported each year.

Typically, removing a dermoid cyst is not an emergency procedure.

Dermoid cysts grow slowly and are not tender unless ruptured.

Removal of other, rarer dermoid cysts requires special techniques and training.

Dermoid cysts in the nasal sinuses: These are also very rare.

Because it contains mature tissue, a dermoid cyst is almost always benign.

An inflammatory reaction can occur if the dermoid cyst is disrupted.

This type of dermoid cyst can become infected.

Dermoid cysts are not attached to the overlying skin.

A dermoid cyst is a saclike growth that is present at birth.

Because dermoid cysts stem from birth and grow slowly, a person usually notices them during childhood or early adulthood.

These rarer dermoid cysts occur in four major areas:

Dermoid cysts are caused when skin and skin structures become trapped during fetal development.

Skin may surround a cyst and grow abundant hair (see Dermoid cyst).

Dermoid cysts can recur if not completely excised.

A large minority of patients with a mediastinal teratoma (including dermoid cyst) will cough up hair.

In rare cases, a dermoid cyst extends into a structure deeper than skin, such as a facial cavity or an orbit.

A dermoid cyst can occur wherever a teratoma can occur.

Dermoid sinus is sometimes also confused with dermoid cyst (a teratoma).

Dermoid cyst with malignant transformation.

Dermoid cyst (ovaries, testes, many other locations from head to tailbone)

If the dermoid cysts appear on the medial aspect, the possibility of an encephalocele becomes greater and should be considered among the differential diagnosis.

A small dermoid cyst on the coccyx can be difficult to distinguish from a pilonidal cyst.