| 1. | Excessive sweating can also contribute to the cause of a pilonidal cyst.
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| 2. | One proposed cause of pilonidal cysts is ingrown hair.
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| 3. | In particular, a pilonidal cyst in the gluteal cleft can resemble a sacrococcygeal teratoma.
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| 4. | Some researchers have proposed that pilonidal cysts may be the result of a congenital pilonidal dimple.
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| 5. | It is characterized by clusters of abscesses, epidermoid cysts, sebaceous cysts, pilonidal cysts.
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| 6. | A pilonidal cyst is usually painful, but with draining, the patient might not feel pain.
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| 7. | The presence of bacteria and low oxygen levels hamper wound healing and exacerbate a forming pilonidal cyst.
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| 8. | A pilonidal cyst can resemble a dermoid cyst, a kind of teratoma ( germ cell tumor ).
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| 9. | R . M . Hodges was the first to use the phrase pilonidal cyst to describe the condition in 1880.
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| 10. | He also developed a procedure for pilonidal cysts, draining them with a catheter instead of the standard surgical excision.
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