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A Seven-Year Study

FENNELL P. TURNER, M.D.; JOSEPH W. O'NEIL, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1959;78(3):398-405.

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The surgical treatment of pilonidal sinus has remained controversial. Reports from various institutions have shown a wide variation in the incidence of wound-healing complications, and follow-up studies have similary shown a wide variation in the recurrence rate. Several years ago a technique of excision and primary closure was described, and preliminary follow-up studies were reported.¹⁴ Our purpose now is to bring this study up to date and present the results of long-term follow-up study.

The operation which we have used throughout this seven-year study is a modification of the bilateral musculofascial-flap procedure described by Holman⁵ in 1946. Our technique differs from the one described by Holman in that we have used no buried suture material, wound closure has been obtained by means of removable farand-near sutures^2,15 of stainless steel inserted through fascia and subcutaneous tissue, as well as skin, and the wounds have been closed without drainage. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Togus, Maine

From the Veterans Administration Center, Department of Surgery.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 18, 1958.

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