title: Treatment of pilonidal disease in short-stay surgery: personal method.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We state that our personal method constitued by excision and primary closure in the treatment of pilonidal sinus, is able to obtain a low rate of recurrence and a fast return to work.
  
  
  METHODS
  Our report has been conducted on 315 patients. Excision and primary closure in the treatment of pilonidal sinus by local-regional anesthesia. The patients have been discharged on second day.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have not had intraoperative complication; about morbilità there have been 4% of seromas treated conservatively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With this personal method we have obtained very good results, in short and long time, with less of recurrences and fast return to work.
authors.affiliation: U.O. Anorectal Pathology, Department of Surgery Sciences, Policlinico G. Martino, University of Messina. aciccolo@unime.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ciccolo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rossitto
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Panacea
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manfrè
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buonamonte
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ardizzone
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D010864:Pilonidal Sinus / Q000601:surgery*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods