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Incision And Drainage Done On A Cyst, Smelly, Brown Paste Squeezes Out. Reason?

I had an incision and drainage done on a sebaceous cyst that got infected a few months ago. I took antibiotics and warm compresses, but the original site of the cyst is still there, right at the crease under my breast. It looks like a pimple, it is where the cyst was aspirated with a needle before it returned and had to be incised. After all of that, the pimple is smelly, and I sometimes feel the urge to press it, upon which a small amount of smelly brown paste gets squeezed out. I have told my doctor, she says its scar tissue, and doesn't want me to get it surgically removed, however I don't understand why there's discharge. The more I sweat, the more discharge, however it's never more than a few grains of salt.
Mon, 14 Oct 2013
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The Brown discharge is because of blood on long standing turns brown. If you have this problem quite a long time than advise is to you have to operate in minor OT as it maintains the track. You have to operate and remove that cyst totally along with the track as there are high chances that it will form a fistula. This has to be done under antibiotic coverage.
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Incision And Drainage Done On A Cyst, Smelly, Brown Paste Squeezes Out. Reason?

The Brown discharge is because of blood on long standing turns brown. If you have this problem quite a long time than advise is to you have to operate in minor OT as it maintains the track. You have to operate and remove that cyst totally along with the track as there are high chances that it will form a fistula. This has to be done under antibiotic coverage.