[tri-med] Re: Cysts

Funny that this should come up right now.  My brother-in-law just found 
he had one of these congenital cysts the other week when it became 
infected.  He'd never known it existed till then.  Fortunately, his 
wasn't on his head at all and once the infection was drained it was 
removed surgically.  It sounds like they aren't so uncommon....

Sorry I don't have more info than that--just wanted you to know another 
incidence of these cysts!

Loren (wife to Kraig, mom to Keren Elyse, T18, 2 1/2 years old 
(9/27/02), and Clarissa Joanne (7/17/05) )
Southeast Michigan
http://webpages.eng.wayne.edu/~ad6075

On Friday, September 23, 2005, at 09:00 PM, Therese wrote:

>
> Natalia had a lump appear behind her left ear lobe last spring  April-
> ish?

> She says "Natalia has a
> congenital cyst- ...She has had this since birth, and only now it has
> showed up, we are concerned that it might go through the facial nerve,
> which if removed, may  end up with cutting the facial nerve causing her
> not to smile"
>

> Anyhow, the way they drained or got some of the accumulated puss out
> was to push it out through the ear...yep...(through this tube that
> connects the cyst to the ear...so, no stitches...and now it is
> ooozing....blood gooo...and it is still raised...she only got about
> half of the goo out....which she told me was about a teaspoon...and the
> funny thing was in the recovery room, she got a swab of the ear stuff
> and was going to have it tested...????

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