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- In a new Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper pops a neck cyst that is squirrel-like in appearance, according to some creative fans.
- The cyst, which is likely an epidermoid cyst, has a unique whiteish-gray coloring.
- The growth is likely filled with dead skin cells and keratin, not a squirrel.
To loosely quote Willy Wonka, this cyst is certainly one bad nut. In a new Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper—aka, dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD—pops a neck cyst that is squirrel-like in appearance, according to some creative fans. And it’s creating quite a stir on social media.
“That’s a doozy,” one fan commented on the video. And the whole situation certainly is.
In the rodent-reminiscent clip, Dr. Lee squeezes a large neck cyst, causing its contents to come out slowly. The cyst, which is likely an epidermoid cyst, has a unique whiteish-gray coloring and is quite lumpy in appearance.
“Looks like she’s giving birth to a squirrel,” one particularly imaginative fan commented on the clip. Sure, it would be birth through the neck, but we will go with that.
Though not a squirrel, the patient did “birth” a collection of wet dead skin cells and keratin, which collect in cysts of this nature. Depending on the melanin content in a person’s skin, cyst contents can be grayish in appearance. Epidermoid cysts like this one often occur on the face, neck and body. So all in all, this “squirrel cyst” is actually quite a textbook specimen.
Watch the squirrel cyst enter this cruel, cruel world below: