title: Axillary hidradenitis.
abstract: The magnitude of the social, economic, and medical problems confronting patients with chronic suppurative axillary hidradenitis is not generally recognized. Nonoperative treatment is disappointing. Total excision of all apocrine-bearing axillary tissue with primary closure is the treatment of choice. Operative treatment can be safely accomplished even when draining sinuses are present. Twenty-six patients representing 47 operated axillae are presented.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001050:Apocrine Glands / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008199:Lymphadenitis / Q000145:classification / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods*; D013545:Sweat Glands / Q000601:surgery*