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cyst

Pathology: - an abnormal sac containing gas, fluid or a semisolid material, with a membrane lining Clinical manifestations: * images [2]

Specific

adventitial cystic disease Bartholin's cyst bone cyst branchial cleft cyst breast cyst bronchogenic cyst choledochal cyst; biliary cyst (includes: choledochocele, Caroli's disease) CNS cyst cyst/mucocele of nose/paranasal sinus cystadenoma; hidrocystoma; Moll's gland cyst; sudoriferous cyst dermoid cyst enterogenous cyst epidermoid cyst (wen, infundibular cyst) esophageal cyst fibrocystic disease of the breast ganglion cyst; bible cyst hepatic cyst horn cyst hydatid cyst; echinococcal cyst hygroma lacteal cyst; milk/ductal cyst; galactocele Morrant Baker (popliteal) cyst or pseudothrombophlebitis syndrome mucocele Nabothian cyst/follicle nasolabial cyst; nasoalveolar cyst ovarian cyst; adnexal cyst; includes ovarian incidentalomas pancreatic cyst parathyroid cyst renal cyst salivary cyst sarcocysts sebaceous cyst; steatocystoma spleen cyst synovial cyst thyroglossal cyst/nodule (thyrolingual cyst) thyroid cyst Tornwaldt's cyst trichilemmal cyst (pilar cyst, isthmus catagen cyst)

General

neoplasm; tumor

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
  2. DermNet NZ. Cysts (images) http://dermnetnz.org/lesions/cysts.html