Atheroma. What is it and how dangerous?

A specific neoplasm of benign nature that occurs under the skin and resembles a capsule is known in medicine as an atheroma. What it is? It is a cyst that appears when the ducts of the sebaceous gland are blocked. It occurs quite often in people of different age categories, regardless of sex. Education is soft, round, sometimes it can reach the size of a chicken egg.

Atheroma appears more often on the skin, where many sebaceous glands are located. Favorite places of localization of the neoplasm are on the face in the region of the superciliary arches, ears, chin, nasolabial triangle. But there is also a tumor on the head, on the back of the neck, on the back, in the armpits, in the groin. Depending on its location, distinguish atheroma of the skin, eyelids, cheeks, head, etc. These lesions can be single and multiple.

Having first discovered a tumor in his or her unusual form, a person experiences anxiety, since not everyone understands such a thing as atheroma. "What it is?" And "How dangerous is this?" - the first questions arising from its owner.

Such formations are not cancerous, but they are prone to enlargement, inflammation and often become chronic foci of infection, which contributes to the development of various complications, such as rupture, infection, provocation of phlegmon, abscess. In extremely rare cases, they can cause squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.

Causal factors of atheroma development include chronic trauma, metabolic disorders, hormonal dysfunction, hyperhidrosis, adverse ecology.

Being the size of a pea, not manifesting itself at all, the tumor can gradually increase in size and become inflamed. How to recognize that you have a lipoma or an atheroma? What is it and how to establish the correct diagnosis? It is necessary to conduct a laboratory examination and differentiation of the tumor with abscess, carbuncle and possible tumors of malignant nature.

With suppuration, atheroma requires urgent surgical treatment. Symptoms of inflammation of the tumor are reddening of the skin, enlargement in size, puffiness, fever, painful sensation, worse when touched, white-gray discharge with an unpleasant odor.

You should know that treating atheroma is easier when it is less. In non-inflamed condition, education is removed painlessly and simply. There are the following ways to get rid of tumors: radio wave, laser and surgical methods. The operation is performed under local anesthesia. Thus, the removal of atheroma on the head with a radio-knife or laser is safe, highly effective and carried out without shaving the affected area.

With surgical intervention, a slight incision is made in the field of education, then the cyst is removed together with the capsule, a seam is applied.

The choice of method of treatment depends on the size and the place where the atheroma was formed. What it is For education, In what its danger, Whether there are contraindications, the qualified expert will explain. He will individually select the right method of therapy.

When choosing a clinic, one should inquire about its reputation, the availability of modern equipment, qualified personnel. Only under such conditions it is possible to carry out without complications the removal of atheroma. Price   on   The procedure depends on the method chosen and the size of the lesion.