Stephanie Warkotsch popped what she thought was a hormonal pimple, but it grew back and "got bigger and bigger" across her cheek.

They feel like soft, fluid-filled lumps under the skin. Acne cysts are the most severe form of pimple. They can be very painful. Like nodules, cysts begin as a deep break in the follicle wall.

The commonest are functional cysts, which may be follicular cysts, which form before ovulation and corpus luteam cysts, which may form after ovulation. A follicular cyst will form if a follicle ...

Cysts and boils are among the most common skin conditions ... usually Staphylococcus aureus, infect the follicle, which surrounds the hair root. This spreads sebum, an oily substance that ...

Interdigital cysts are firm ... The cause is usually a traumatically ruptured hair follicle. The surrounding inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue is due to a foreign-body reaction ...

At that time investigations revealed the presence of benign luteinized follicular cysts, which were resected laparoscopically. Her symptoms then temporarily abated, but recurred with re-growth of ...

[15] In 45 patients the procedure was repeated twice because of inadequate specimens or refilling of the cyst after aspiration ... consistent with predominantly follicular lesion (14 cases ...