The effect of different surgical methods on complications and on the quality of life in pilonidal sinus disease

Caglayan K., Gungor B., Cinar H., Topgul K., Kesicioglu T., Polat C., ...Daha Fazla

TURKISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY, cilt.27, sa.2, ss.94-97, 2011 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 27 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5097/1300-0705.ucd.950-11.03
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.94-97
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Pilonidal sinus, excision, Limberg flap, complications, patient satisfaction
  • Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Purpose: Pilonidal sinus, especially seen in young men, is known to be a distressed condition both in preoperative and postoperative period. Many surgical methods are defined to have advantages against each other, in many different publications in the medical literature. In this study, we aimed to compare two different methods in terms of postoperative complications, recurrence and patients' quality of life.