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What are the side effects of removing a sebaceous cyst?
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Pain, scar, swelling: Usually few side effects. No different than any other surgery with possible discomfort, swelling, a scar, bleeding, infection. It could return if there is epidermal fragments left behind.
Answered 9/28/2016
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