- Dr. Pimple Popper treats a man with a cyst on his chest and expresses the entire growth evenly.
- Cysts are skin cells that are trapped in a thin sac beneath the skin. They are non-cancerous but can feel painful.
- After the procedure, Dr. Pimple Popper cut the bag open to reveal an oatmeal-like substance.
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As an experienced dermatologist, dr. Pimple Popper is not easily surprised by the skin conditions that bring her patients to the operating table.
But in a YouTube video from April 2 that dr. Pimple Popper shared on YouTube, the growth of one man initially fooled her.
Initially, dr. Pimple Popper, whose real name is dr. Sandra Lee is, thought the growth of apple size is a lipoma.
Lipomas are fat-filled growths that sit between someone’s muscle layer and skin layer. According to the Mayo Clinic, lipomas typically grow slowly and are quite small, about 2 inches in diameter.
But after injecting the lump with a numbing solution and cutting a surgical blade through the middle of it, she revealed a white pouch indicating a cyst. Lipomas, which are made up of fat, tend to be more lumpy, yellow and amorphous.
“It’s like an egg down here. A goose egg!” Lee talks about the spherical white growth when she used scissors to enlarge the cut.
After the incision was about five centimeters wide, dr. Pimple Popper confirms that it was actually a cyst, not a lipoma.
A cyst is a type of growth that, according to the Mayo Clinic, forms slowly when skin cells burrow into the skin rather than shedding from the surface. The cells are encased in a thin bag that holds it under the skin, Lee said in the video.
Then the dr. Pimple Popper uses her fingers to gently press the sides of the growth and her scissors to cut away fibers that held the cysts under the skin.
“It’s like a cyst bath bomb,” Lee said because of the growth’s round and full shape.
Dr. Pimple Popper presses around the incision and pushes the goose egg growth to the surface until it protrudes from the man’s skin. She then used scissors to cut tissue at the base of the growth and release it from the man’s body.
“We got it, and it’s beautiful,” Lee declared, reaching for her saturated pen to stop bleeding into the wound and stitching the incision.
But the fun doesn’t stop there.
After removing the cysts, Lee and her staff cut them open to see what was in them. An oatmeal-like remedy washed out.