[Surgical treatment of a disseminated form of chronic suppurative hidradenitis]

The article presents results of the examination and surgical treatment of 80 patients with a widespread form of chronic purulent hidradenitis. Duration of the disease varied from 5 till 20 years and longer. Ninety six operations were performed with the following closure of the wound defect with a skin graft. Recovery was noted in 65 patients, 12 patients disappeared from observation, 3 patients died (amyloidosis, blastomatous transformation, embolism of the pulmonary artery).