Cyst - Types

Types

  • Acne cyst – Pseudocysts associated with cystic acne. Actually an inflammatory nodule with or without an associated epidermoid inclusion cyst.
  • Aneurysmal bone cyst (Aggressive lesion with radiographic cystic appearance)
  • Arachnoid cyst (between the surface of the brain and the cranial base or on the arachnoid membrane)
  • Baker's cyst or popliteal cyst (behind the knee joint)
  • Bartholin's cyst
  • Breast cyst
  • Buccal bifurcation cyst
  • Calcifying odontogenic cyst
  • Chalazion cyst (eyelid)
  • Chocolate cyst
  • Choroid plexus cyst (brain)
  • Colloid cyst
  • Cysticercal cyst (the larval stage of Taenia sp. (Crain's backs))
  • Dentigerous cyst (associated with the crowns of non-erupted teeth)
  • Dermoid cyst (ovaries, testes, many other locations from head to tailbone)
  • Epididymal cyst (found in the vessels attached to the testes)
  • Ganglion cyst (hand/foot joints and tendons)
  • Glandular odontogenic cyst
  • Glial cyst (in the brain)
  • Gartner's duct cyst (vaginal or vulvar cyst of embryological origin)
  • Hydatid cyst (larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus (tapeworm))
  • Hydrocele (testicle)
  • Keratocyst (in the jaws, these can appear solitary or associated with the Gorlin-Goltz or Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. The latest World Health Organization classification considers Keratocysts as tumors rather than cysts)
  • Liver cystic disease
  • Meibomian cyst (eyelid)
  • Mucoid cyst (ganglion cysts of the digits)
  • Mucous cyst of the oral mucosa
  • Nabothian cyst (cervix)
  • Nasolabial duct cyst
  • Odontogenic cyst (teeth)
  • Ovarian cyst (ovaries, functional and pathological)
  • Pancreatic cyst
  • Paradental cyst
  • Parapelvic cyst (kidney)
  • Paratubal cyst (fallopian tube)
  • Periapical cyst (This cyst, also known as radicular cyst, is the most common odontogenic cyst)
  • Pericardial cyst
  • Peritoneal cyst (lining of the abdominal cavity)
  • Pilar cyst (cyst of the scalp)
  • Pilonidal cyst (skin infection near tailbone)
  • Renal cyst (kidneys)
  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Pineal gland cyst
  • Radicular cyst (associated with the roots of non-vital teeth, also known as periapical cyst)
  • Residual cyst
  • Sebaceous cyst (sac below skin)
  • Spermatocele (testicle)
  • Stafne static bone cyst (An anatomic variant with radiographic cystic appearance in the posterior mandible)
  • Tarlov cyst (spine)
  • Trichilemmal cyst – Same as a pilar cyst. A familial cyst of the scalp.
  • Vocal fold cyst

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