Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD Boils are painful, pus-filled, and are caused by infections like Staphylococcus ...

Medicare covers sebaceous cyst removal when medically necessary. This includes cases where the cyst causes bleeding or pain, shows signs of inflammation or infection, or has recently gotten larger.

In her latest YouTube video, Dr. Sandra Lee, MD (aka Dr. Pimple Popper) treats a patient with an inflamed cyst. First she cuts out the punctum-ie, the opening of the cyst. Then she squeezes out the ...

After popping what she thought was an ordinary pimple, a woman discovered it was a cyst that would leave her with a permanent scar. Stephanie Warkotsch, 30, noticed the lump on her cheek at the ...