objectives effect of using autologous platelet-rich plasma (prp) on pain reduction in patients with pilonidal abscess, subjected to extensive surgical removal tissue, was investigated through a clinical trial. patients and methods the trial was conducted on two groups from the center for surgical research at mashhad university of medical sciences located at ghaem hospital in mashhad city in 201...

Pilonidal sinus is an acquired and well described disease which is mostly located in sacrococcygeal midline region, lined by squamous epithelium and characterized by chronic inflammation including foreign body giant cells and sinus or sinuses containing epithelial debris and sometimes young granulation tissue. A malignant transformation can be seen in 0.1% of chronic or recurrent pilonidal sinu...

Pilonidal sinus is a common entity, most often occurring in the natal cleft. Pilonidal sinus with abscess formation has also been described in hairdressers in the interdigital space. We report a case of pilonidal abscess of the breast in a hairdresser, a rarely reported site, which requires awareness on the clinician's part of this occupational risk, for appropriate management and post-surgery ...

Background: Malignant degeneration of pilonidal sinus is a rare complication observed mainly in recurrent chronic cases of the disease and is associated with a poor prognosis. In the international literature, it is an infrequent entity. In Spain, 367 patients with simple and complicated pilonidal cysts were reviewed, finding three cases (0.81%) of epidermoid carcinoma. Clinical case: We present...

BACKGROUND Barber's disease is an acquired occupational disease produced by short customers' hairs that penetrate the interdigital spaces of the hands. The lesion has been reported to occur mostly on the hands of male hairdressers. The purpose of this article is to report a rare case of a female hairdresser who developed a pilonidal sinus in the interdigital web of her non-dominant hand and rev...

A pilonidal sinus is a chronic inflammatory process, the etiology of which is still not fully elucidated. It frequently presents at the sacrococcygeal region (typical) and rarely at extrasacrococcygeal (atypical) locations, including the interdigital, axillary, inguinal, and umbilical regions, as well as the neck, face, and scalp. A 46-year-old man presented with a thirty-year history of a slow...