Barber's interdigital pilonidal sinus of the hand: a foreign body hair granuloma.
Interdigital pilonidal sinus of the hand is an occupational disease of male barbers. Customers' hairs penetrate the supple interdigital skin, cause a sinus, and later a cyst. Through the sinus, the hairs get entrapped and may occasionally be expressed. Excision of the sinus or the cyst is curative.
Hand Surgery Service, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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D001461:Barbering; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006099:Granuloma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006197:Hair; D006225:Hand / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010864:Pilonidal Sinus / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D012737:Sex Factors