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dermoid cyst
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dermoid cyst [¦dər‚mȯid ′sist]
(medicine)
A benign cystic teratoma with skin, skin appendages, and their products as the most prominent components, usually involving the ovary or the skin.
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[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] [FIGURE 3 OMITTED] [FIGURE 4 OMITTED] [FIGURE 5 OMITTED] Fat-suppressed sequences Fat-suppression sequences are used for the recognition of lesions composed predominantly of fat, such as angiomyolipomas and ovarian dermoid cysts, which as the name implies, are of low signal intensity on fat-suppressed images (8) (Figure 6).
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