The most common type of pilonidal cyst surgery is incision and drainage, but a surgeon will remove the cyst if it recurs or a person has continuing difficulties with it. Learn more.

Dermoid cysts of the ovary in particular are subject to a number of complications that may make surgical intervention urgent.

October 16 - Tennis great Serena Williams is recovering from surgery to remove a large cyst on her neck. Williams, 43, posted the news to social media on Wednesday, saying she had a benign ...

Medicare covers the removal of benign skin lesions including sebaceous cysts if medically necessary. Learn the criteria for medically necessary removal.

All patients were treated with surgical excision of the cysts, along with local triamcinolone injection. Histopathological findings of the excised cysts were consistent with chalazion.

Tennis great Serena Williams is recovering from surgery to remove a large cyst on her neck.

Since the lesions can degenerate and become infected, with a risk of osteomyelitis, the appropriate treatment is excision of the cyst and the attendant osteophyte.