“You’re having a belly button period,” a doctor friend texted me. Truly, a sentence no one wants to hear. But it wasn’t so simple.

ALTHOUGH dermoid cysts are not common and are seldom malignant, they are of interest from several points of view. When they occur near the body surface they are of concern to the patient because of ...

When an ovarian cyst ruptures, you can expect anything from mild discomfort to severe pain. Know the symptoms and what to do ...

A lump inside the mouth can be alarming because it is easy to imagine the worst. In many cases, mouth bumps turn out to be harmless. They may come from irritation, a blocked salivary gland, swollen ...

An epidermal nevus is formed of skin cells which proliferate abnormally in a noncancerous way, to produce a benign overgrowth in the outer layer of skin. It is usually present at birth, or is seen in ...