This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Jan Kudejko, MD
Dermatological Voievodeship Outpatient Department Lublin, 3 Maja 5a Poland

Arch Dermatol. 1970;101(3):370-371.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor.—

Surgical excision has been used in the treatment of sebaceous cysts.^1,2 Particular attention to removing the sac as completely as possible, must be taken.³ Danna⁴ and Robbins and Pensky⁵ suggested the electrosurgical procedure.

The pressing method seems to be very simple and applicable for a variety of reasons. The sebaceous content and the sac can be removed through a small opening. The technique is as follows: the skin covering the cyst is tense and the cyst slightly pressed by the thumb and the index finger of one hand. A diathermy needle is inserted into the most prominent area of a cyst to produce an opening of about 2 mm in diameter. Care is to be taken to correlate the size of it to that of the sebaceous cyst. The application of procaine anesthesia upon the site of the diathermy needle insertion is required . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?