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What's white and black and wet all over? The answer is this massive cyst. In a new Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper aka, dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD pops a cyst that looks like its filled with wet, torn newspaper. The trash-filled city streets got nothing on this one.
In the quick clip, Dr. Lee squeezes a massive epidermoid cyst out of a particularly small incision. The cyst contents has a unique whiteish-dark gray coloring, and is quite lumpy in appearance.
Its like youve got wet newspaper under there, Dr. Lee tells the patient, leading off the comparison game. Several fans wrote in the comments that the contents looks like everything from cement to mud to gray ground beef. Delicious.
The wet newspaper in the cyst is actually a collection of wet dead skin cells and keratin . Depending on the melanin content in a person's skin, these cyst contents can be grayish in appearance. Epidermoid cysts like this often occur on the face, neck and body.
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Watch the wadded-up newspaper break free in the cyst pop clip below: