Cysts: Types, Pictures, Symptoms, Causes, And Treatment

Cysts: Types, Pictures, Symptoms, Causes, And Treatment

Give classification, clinical features, and complications of cysts.

Answer. Cyst is defined as “A pathological cavity having flid, semifluid or gaseous contents and which is not created by accumulation of pus.”— Kramer (1974)

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Classification Of Cysts

1. Congenital cyst

• Dermoids: Sequestration dermoid cyst
• Tubulodermoids: Thyroglossal cyst, postanal dermoid, ependymal cyst, urachal cyst
• Cyst of embryonic remnants: cyst from paramesonephric duct and mesonephric duct, cyst of urachus and vitellointestinal duct cyst.

Types Of Cysts

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2. Acquired cyst

• Retention cysts: sebaceous cyst, bar tholin’s cyst, parotid cyst, breast cyst.
• Distention cyst: lymph cyst, ovarian cyst, colloid goiter
• Exudation cyst: Dursa, hydrocele, pancreatic pseudocyst

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3. Cystic tumors: Dermoid cyst of the ovary, cystadenomas

4. Traumatic cyst: Hematoma, implantation dermoid cyst

5. Degenerative cyst: Tumor necrosis

6. Parasitic cyst: Hydatid cyst, cysticercosis cellulose, trichinosis.

Cyst Removal

Symptoms Of An Infected Cyst

Clinical Features Of Cysts

• Hemispherical swelling which is smooth, flctuant, nontender and well localized.
• Some cysts are transilluminate
• Presentation varies depending on anatomical location and pathology
• Cysts can be single or multiple.
• Cysts lead to the compression of adjacent structures
• This leads to infection, sinus formation, hemorrhage, calcification, and cachexia.

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Complications Of Cysts

• Infection: For example sebaceous cyst
• Calcification: For example hematoma, hydatid cyst
• Pressure effects: Ovarian cyst pressing iliac veins
• Hemorrhage: In thyroid cyst
• Torsion: Ovarian dermoid
• Transformation into malignancy
• Ovarian cachexia.

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Cyst Diagnosis

Thyroglossal Duct Cyst

Enumerate midline swelling of neck. Describe the thyroglossal cyst briefly. 

Answer.

Enumeration of midline swelling of the neck

• Ludwig’s angina
• Enlarged sub-mental lymph node
• Sub-lingual dermoid cyst
• Thyroglossal cyst
• Sub-hyoid bursitis
• Goiter of thyroid, isthmus and pyramidal lobe

Cyst Infection

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Causes Of Cysts In Armpits

• Enlarged lymph node and lipoma in substernal space of burns
• Retrosternal goiter
• Thymic swelling
• Bony swelling arising from the manubrium sterni.