Must Know About This

• Minor surgery is the most common and effective treatment.
• An alternative treatment is to use a hypodermic needle to drain fluid (“aspirate”)from the cyst.
• The recurrence rate is higher in aspirated cysts than in excised ones.

Good to Know About This

• Although more common in the hand and wrist, ganglion cysts can also occur in the foot and ankle.
• A ganglion cyst is soft tissue lump that occurs around a joint or tendon.
• The condition is caused by leakage of fluid from the joint into the surrounding tissue.