Treatment may be conservative or surgical. Hemorrhagic functional cysts are one type of ovarian cyst, and in some cases, they may lead to complications. Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that ...

Since 1957, several different types of percutaneous tracheostomy techniques have been described and performed with the support of bronchoscopic transillumination. The authors present the case of a ...

What are mucous cysts? A mucous cyst, also known as a mucocele, is a fluid-filled swelling that occurs on the lip or the mouth. The cyst develops when the mouth’s salivary glands become plugged ...

Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is the major cause of evaporative dry eye disease (EDED) and dysfunction is widely thought to mechanistically involve ductal hyperkeratinization, plugging and ...

Your doctor may shine a strong light through your scrotum. This test is called transillumination. This is useful because: light shows through a harmless, fluid filled cyst (for example a hydrocoele) ...

Also known as hepatic cysts, they can develop before birth or later in life due to infection or genetic disorders like polycystic liver disease (PLD). Between 2.5% and 18% of people are affected by ...

Ovarian cysts are usually harmless but treatments may be needed to manage symptoms. They will vary based on whether lifestyle changes and natural remedies can help, or whether medication or a ...

Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6AW Professor Neville Osborne, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AW. In ...