"Dr. Pimple Popper," a TLC special starring Dr. Sandra Lee, premiered on Wednesday night.In the hour-long special, apatient named Delano came to Lee's office with a large, fluid-filled bump on his back.Lee filled 33 syringes while draining the bump, which turned out to be benign.Tests found it was full of fluid that had leaked from Delano's lymphatic system.Dr. Sandra Lee is already famous for her Dr. Pimple Popper YouTube channel, where her videos of blackhead extractions and cyst eruptions enthrall millions of subscribers. Now her empire is expanding to TV: On Wednesday night, TLC aired an hour-long special called (what else') "Dr. Pimple Popper."The special told the stories of four patients with benign growths, all of which were removed by Lee. Most of the pops were standard fare lipomas and pilar cysts but one patient had a bump that stumped Lee.The man, identified only as Delano, came to Lee's office with a bump in his back that looked like two grapefruits nestled beneath the skin. In an interview segment, Delano revealed that even though he tried to hide the growing bump by draping a shirt over his shoulder, it had still drained his self esteem. He even said that the bump had cost him jobs.Delano said a previous doctor told him the bump was a lipoma a harmless tumor made of fat cells. But Lee wasn't so sure.She began by attempting to drain liquid from the bump."This is definitely not a lipoma," Lee said, as soon as her syringe began to fill up with straw-colored liquid. Lipomas, are solid and can't be drained at all, she explained.Then the fluid just kept coming. All told, Lee filled up 33 syringes with fluid from the bump, which slowly deflated throughout the procedure.There wasn't a super-clear before-and-after shot, but the dramatic size difference was immediately clear.Lee sent the fluid to a lab to be tested, then ordered a CT scan for Delano. Six weeks later, he returned to the office to get the results. By that time the bump had already started to fill up again.The testing showed that the fluid trapped in Delano's back had actually leaked from his lymphatic system the network of tubes that keeps our body fluids in balance and helps us fight off infections.There was a blockage in Delano's lymphastic system like a "kink in a garden hose," Lee said and the lymphatic fluid was leaking into the space beneath his skin. (The scientific name for the issue is a lymphangioma, Lee explained.) The bad news was that he'd need surgery to fix things. The good news was that the growth wasn't cancerous or dangerous.Lee said she planned to refer Delano to a surgeon to repair the leak and presumably, he lived happily ever after.It's still not clear whether or not there will be more episodes of "Dr. Pimple Popper," or whether it was just a one-time special. INSIDER reached out to TLC for more information but did not hear back immediately.In the meantime, you can use your TV provider login to watch the first episode on the TLC website or the TLC GO app. If you want to see Delano's procedure, skip ahead to 13:40 mark. His final visit with Lee happens around the 40-minute mark.Sign uphereto get INSIDER's favorite stories straight to your inbox.Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: This is a lace face mask
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