A Case of Ruptured Perineal Epidermal Cyst

Epidermal cysts are common skin lesions. They are usually seen in the chronic sun-exposed areas of the skin. They can get complicated by inflammation, infection, rupture, or malignancy. Epidermal cyst in the perineal region is rare. We report a case of an infected ruptured perineal epidermal cyst mi...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Rahul, Verma, Piyush, Bansal, Nalini, Semwal, Tushar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Plastic Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7681750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33240695
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11099
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author Gupta, Rahul
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description Epidermal cysts are common skin lesions. They are usually seen in the chronic sun-exposed areas of the skin. They can get complicated by inflammation, infection, rupture, or malignancy. Epidermal cyst in the perineal region is rare. We report a case of an infected ruptured perineal epidermal cyst mimicking gluteal abscess. The patient was successfully treated by complete surgical excision. Histology revealed epidermal cyst with foreign body giant cell reaction and no evidence of malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-76817502020-11-24 A Case of Ruptured Perineal Epidermal Cyst Gupta, Rahul Verma, Piyush Bansal, Nalini Semwal, Tushar Cureus Plastic Surgery Epidermal cysts are common skin lesions. They are usually seen in the chronic sun-exposed areas of the skin. They can get complicated by inflammation, infection, rupture, or malignancy. Epidermal cyst in the perineal region is rare. We report a case of an infected ruptured perineal epidermal cyst mimicking gluteal abscess. The patient was successfully treated by complete surgical excision. Histology revealed epidermal cyst with foreign body giant cell reaction and no evidence of malignancy. Cureus 2020-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7681750/ /pubmed/33240695 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11099 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gupta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7681750/
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