A cyst can grow almost anywhere on your body or under your skin. It is a sac-like pocket of membranous tissue containing fluid, air, or other substances. Cysts are very common, and most are benign -- ...

Often an incidental finding on brain scans looking for trauma or other neurological conditions, arachnoid cysts (ACs) are small, fluid-filled sacs within the arachnoid membrane, one of three layers ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 78-year-old white male, fairly active, walking 8 to 10 miles a week and consider myself in good but not perfect health. I had seed implants in my prostate 3 years ago with no ...

Researchers report that a drug commonly used to treat diabetes may also retard the growth of fluid-filled cysts of the most common genetic disorder, polycystic kidney disease. PKD does not ...

Every woman who is menstruating produces an ovarian cyst each month. But they don’t normally grow to dimensions that make the newspapers. Dr. John Currie, who removed a 180-pound ovarian cyst from a ...

Maria Masters – Unless you're hoping to have a child (or just saw a picture of an adorable baby), you probably don't give your ovaries much thought. So it might be a little unsettling to realize that ...

Ovarian cyst which is also termed as Para tubal cyst is a fluid-filled sac that originates either in the ovaries or the fallopian tubes. These cysts are usually benign or non-cancerous as they do not ...

Unless you’re hoping to have a child (or just saw a picture of an adorable baby), you probably don’t give your ovaries much thought. So it might be a little unsettling to realize that around the time ...

A drug commonly used to treat diabetes may also retard the growth of fluid-filled cysts of the most common genetic disorder, polycystic kidney disease. Researchers report that pioglitazone appears to ...