From this age on to adult life many similar cases are recorded.

Nearly every medical museum has preserved specimens of dermoid cysts, and almost all physicians are well acquainted with their occurrence.

The curious formations and contents and the bizarre shapes are of great variety.
Graves mentions a dermoid cyst containing the left side of a human face, an eye, a molar tooth, and various bones.

Dermoid cysts are found also in regions of the body quite remote from the ovary.

The so-called "orbital wens" are true inclusion of the skin of a congenital origin, as are the nasal dermoids and some of the cysts of the neck.
Weil reported the case of a man of twenty-two years who was born with what was supposed to be a spina bifida in the lower sacral region.
According to Senn, the swelling never caused any pain or inconvenience until it inflamed, when it opened spontaneously and suppurated, discharging a large quantity of offensive pus, hair, and sebaceous material, thus proving it to have been a dermoid.