Dermoid cyst
Classification & external resources

Intraovarian Dermoid
ICD-10	K09.8
ICD-9	528.4
ICD-O:	9084/0
DiseasesDB	3604
eMedicine	derm/686

A dermoid cyst is a teratoma that contains developmentally mature skin, with hair follicles and sweat glands, sometimes luxuriant clumps of long hair, and often pockets of sebum, blood, or fat. Because it contains mature tissue, a dermoid cyst almost always is benign. The rare malignant dermoid cyst usually develops squamous cell carcinoma. Dermoid in Ovary, Sonography File links The following pages link to this file: Dermoid cyst User:Ekem/images Categories: User-created public domain images ... The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ... The following codes are used with International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ... // K00-K93 - Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K14) Diseases of oral cavity, salivary glands and jaws (K00) Disorders of tooth development and eruption (K01) Embedded and impacted teeth (K02) Dental caries (K03) Other diseases of hard tissues of teeth (K04) Diseases of pulp and periapical tissues (K040) Pulpitis (K05... The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ... The following is a list of codes for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ... The International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O) is a domain specific extension of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems for tumor diseases. ... The Disease Bold textDatabase is a free website that provides information about the relationships between medical conditions, symptoms, and medications. ... eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996. ... A teratoma is a type of tumor that derives from pluripotent germ cells. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Epidermis (skin). ... A hair follicle is part of the skin that grows hair by packing old cells together. ... Sweating (also called perspiration or sometimes transpiration) is the loss of a watery fluid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and urea in solution, that is secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. ... Young Girl Fixing her Hair, by Sophie Gengembre Anderson Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of dead cells from the skin, found only on mammals. ... The sebaceous glands are glands found in the skin of mammals. ... Human blood smear: a - erythrocytes; b - neutrophil; c - eosinophil; d - lymphocyte. ... Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. ... Benign can refer to any medical condition which, untreated or with symptomatic therapy, will not become life-threatening. ... In medicine, malignant is a clinical term that is used to describe a clinical course that progresses rapidly to death. ... Biopsy of a highly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth. ...

Dermoid cysts are reported to occur most often in the ovaries of females, and on the skull sutures, but this may be a cultural artefact. That is, the term itself, not the tumor, may be more common in gynecology and dermatology. Some authors use the term as a frank synonym for teratoma. The term dermoid is sometimes used to mean dermoid cyst but this is unfortunately vague. Human female internal reproductive anatomy Ovaries are egg-producing reproductive organs found in female organisms. ... Side view of the skull. ...

References

• Emedicine.com article