The most common causes of small meatballs on the neck include filiform warts, epidermal cysts, and molluscum contagiosum.
1. filiform warts: this disease is mainly caused by human papilloma virus infection, manifested as a single normal skin color or gray-brown soft filiform protuberances, the tip of the rough hard and other symptoms.
2. Epidermal cysts: some epidermal cysts can be primary cysts for unknown reasons, some epidermal cysts can be caused by trauma, friction, surgery and other factors, manifested as a hemispherical elevated skin surface cystic swellings, smooth surface, cysts can be black in the center of the surface of the concave point, extrusion of tofu dregs-like material, can be a single, can be more than one, no pressure and pain and other symptoms. It may be single, multiple, without pressure and pain. Squeezing and collision may cause inflammation.
3. Soft fibroma: the etiology and pathogenesis of this disease is not clear, may be related to obesity, hypertension and metabolic abnormalities (blood fat, blood sugar), etc., manifested as papules, filiform protuberances, polypoid protuberances, soft texture, slow development of the disease, mostly without conscious symptoms.
It is recommended that patients according to their own symptoms, timely to the regular hospital dermatology consultation, follow the doctor’s instructions for a clear diagnosis, active treatment, to avoid delaying the condition.