Erschienen in:
01.02.2012 | Invited Commentary
Lateral Incision Surgery for Pilonidal Sinus: Death of a Dogma
verfasst von:
Mark Cheetham
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 2/2012
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Excerpt
Pilonidal sinus disease is common, but there is no universally accepted surgical treatment for the disease. Over the ages, operative solutions have varied from minimal treatment, such as proposed by Lord and Millar [
1] and Bascom [
2], to the “shock and awe” tactics of wide excision with flap reconstruction [
3]. It could be argued that in some cases the results of surgery were worse than the disease. …