An Epidydimal cyst is a smooth formation on one or both of the Testicles. They can cause pain, but they aren't cancerous and can easily be removed by a small out patient or daycase excision surgery.
Smooth, Extratesticular, spherical cysts in the head of the epididymis are not uncommon in adult men. They are benign and do not usually require treatment. It is important to appreciate when they might be significant and when further investigation or treatment is needed. Epididymal cysts usually develop in adults around the age of 40. Epididymal cysts are rare in children and when they do occur, they usually present around the time of puberty. Cysts are found in as many as 30% of asymptomatic patients having scrotal untrasound for other reasons, but most of these are spermatocoeles. The prevalenve in the general population is difficult to estimate.
Presentation
Patients are usually noticed having a lump. This often causes a great deal of anxiety and clinical examination can enable reassurance.
Differential diagnosis
The Associated diseases are as follows:
A facetal cyst is a type of cyst that exists in the lumbar spine. This type of cyst is also referred to as a synovial cyst.
Cyst can turn out to be a pustule but a pustule cannot be a cyst.
A Nathbathiam cyst is a cyst that has a strange coloration of purple, like you would see on a bruise. these types of cyst are deadly and can only be removed with painful sugery
A cyst developing in between the two layers of the parametrium is a parametrial cyst.
yes, because radicular cyst lined by epithelium
A subchondral cyst is a fluid-filled sac under the cartilage.
The cyst was fluid filled.Her ovarian cyst was small and benign.
It depends on the location of the cyst.
a cyst with one focal point
Fatty cyst
medical term: Ganglion Cyst
a cyst with one focal point