Evaluation of Post-operative Use of Depilating Creams on Incidence of Recurrence after Surgical Treatment of Chronic Pilonidal Sinus

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General Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Egypt

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Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the depilating cream’s usage on the recurrence after the surgical treatment of
pilonidal sinus.
Methodology: This is a prospective randomized study of all patients admitted to Fayoum university hospital for
surgical procedures treatment of chronic pilonidal sinus disease from May 2015 to March 2017.
Results: The follow-up period for PSD in our study was 12 months, during which we encountered 3 cases of
recurrence, all of them in the group (B). In our study, we found that the percentage of males with pilonidal sinuses
was more than females, and, also females suffered from lower rates of complications and no recurrence. Our study
included patients with different occupations; PSD was found to be more common in particular jobs such as jeep < br />drivers, workers who sit for more than six hours per day, and students.
Conclusion: The usage of the depilatory cream after surgical treatment of PSD may be promising; leaving hair
without epilation was reported to have a higher rate of complication and recurrence than hair epilation.

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Ain Shams Journal of Surgery
Volume 15, Issue 1
January 2022
Pages 26-30

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