abstractepidermal inclusion cysts are uncommon in the breast, but the consequences can besevere when these cysts occur in the breast parenchyma. here, we report two suchcases. the patient in case 1 was an 37-year-old woman with a 3-cm palpable mass inthe right breast. mammography revealed a round and smoothly outlined mass, whichindicated a benign tumor, and sonography showed an irregularly sha...

Epidermoid cysts that appear in the midline of the head & neck are, usually, a result of entrapped ectodermal tissue of the first and second branchial arches, which fuse during the third and fourth weeks in utero. The incidence in the floor of the mouth of the oral cavity is very rare. We report a case of a large sublingual epidermoid cyst in a young male patient with emphasis on the management.

Retroperitoneal epidermoid cysts are rare. The authors report a case of an 11-year-old boy with an asymptomatic subdiaphragmatic cyst, which was found incidentally during an investigation for hypertension. At laparoscopy, the cyst was densely adherent to the diaphragm, resulting in a pneumothorax during dissection. Nevertheless, the excision and the diaphragmatic repair could be completed lapar...

Case 1. A 56-year-old male farmer from Kars. Formerly classified as having lepromatous leprosy (LL). The patient was hospitalized due to a chronic plantar ulcer of 3 years duration on his right foot. The biopsy results of the ulcer showed it to be 'epidermoid carcinoma' . Results of a previous biopsy taken at Diyabakir were reported as 'epidermoid carcinoma in primary stage' . The report of fur...

introduction retrorectal cysts are rare benign lesions which are frequently diagnosed in middle-aged females. according to their origin and histopathologic features, retrorectal cysts are classified as squamous-lined (dermoid or epidermoid) cysts, postanal gut (tailgut) cysts, and rectal duplications (enteric or enterogenous cysts, enterocystomas). described in this case report is an extremely ...

Intradiploic epidermoid cyst of the skull, despite being rare and representing less than 1% of all intracranial tumors, is a benign lesion that is derived from an ectodermal cell rest within the cranium. The frontal and parietal bones are the most common sites for the cyst; however, the temporal bone, although rarely, is also involved. Intradiploic epidermoid cysts have slow growth rates and of...