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Treatment of pilonidal sinus by excision and rhomboid flap
C Jiménez Romero1, M Alcalde, F Martin
1Service of General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
International Journal of Colorectal Disease
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
A series of 23 patients with chronic pilonidal disease have been treated by excision and transposition rhomboid flap. Full primary healing was obtained in all patients, with only two cases of wound seroma. The average hospital stay was 9 days. The mean follow-up period was 12 months, and no late recurrences have occurred.