The object of surgery was to achieve three things - to decompress the Achilles tendon, to clean out the ... see at this stage are little fluid-filled cysts and areas of soft, abnormal tissue ...

Achilles tendon problems have been a recurring nightmare ... he told me it looked very ragged and that I had a number of cysts in it which he was removing. He then did the tendon lengthening ...

A look at the injuries for Tiger Woods, who had surgery Tuesday on a ruptured left Achilles tendon ... and outside the ACL and remove benign cysts from his left knee. Misses the season opener ...