Over the years, surgery has experienced a transition from being a trial and error-based approach towards evidence-based practice. To no surgically treated ailment does this truism apply more than ...
A pilonidal sinus impacts the natal cleft, located at the upper buttocks crease beneath the tailbone. In the present era, the culprits behind a multitude of health problems are often identified as ...
Background: Pilonidal disease is an acute or chronic infection in the subcutaneous fatty tissue, mainly in the natal cleft. Its incidence in Germany in 2012 was 48 cases per 100 000 persons per year.
The term pilonidal (PIE-low-ni-dal) cyst is the most common term for a spectrum of disease that occurs over your tailbone (coccyx) at the top of the buttock crease/ gluteal cleft. An English surgeon, ...