Over the years, surgery has experienced a transition from being a trial and error-based approach towards evidence-based practice. To no surgically treated ailment does this truism apply more than ...
Objective: To compare open healing with primary closure for pilonidal sinus and optimal closure method (midline v off-midline). Design: Systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised controlled ...
According to the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Pilonidal disease is a chronic skin infection that affects ...
STANHOPE, N.J., June 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pilonidal disease—a chronic infectious and inflammatory condition affecting the skin and underlying tissue near the tailbone—is a common disorder ...
What is the preferred surgical approach to pilonidal sinus disease? The study authors reviewed published case reports, case series, systematic reviews, and randomized trials from 1980 to 2010. On the ...
Oct. 25, 2002 — A new paradigm for the surgical approach to pilonidal disease, described in the October issue of the Archives of Surgery, allows cure for those cases which were formerly refractory to ...