How a little face blemish resulted in an operationWoman's warning not to pop pimplesA woman who thought she had a small ...

Mucus protects our body by trapping bacteria and particles. The color and texture of your mucus can give clues about your ...

There are many unpleasant aspects of the cold winter season, and chief among them is the havoc it can wreak on sinuses. Even ...

The closure doesn't occur in some infants, causing a urachal cyst or sinus to form. People can live comfortably with a urachal cyst without ever realizing they have one, as it usually doesn't cause ...

Moreover, the intraoperative finding of friable concretions in a sinus should alert surgeons and pathologists to a probable fungal infection. The classic Caldwell-Luc procedure was the only ...

A mom took a sinus relief syringe, stuck it up her screaming, swaddled five-year-old’s nose, and without a moment’s hesitation, let the saline loose. I watched a waterfall of yellow mucus pour ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic condition that leads to the production of thick, sticky mucus, which can cause complications in multiple organs, including the sinuses, lungs, intestines ...

This method is also problematic in patients with a pilonidal sinus larger than 4–5 cm and in those who have undergone a prior midline excision. Large wounds in the midline can take a very long ...

The preoperative MRI showed the dermal sinus tract with 2 intradural lesions from L1 to L3. The tract was surgically excised followed by complete excision of the cyst and lipoma. The dermal sinus ...

Nasal polyps are fleshy swellings that develop in the lining of the nose and paranasal sinuses, which are the air-filled spaces linked to the nasal cavity. They are noncancerous growths.