The aetiology and treatment of pilonidal sinus. A review of 163 patients
β Scribed by P. Goodall
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1961
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 733 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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Squamous-cell cancer developing in chronic pilonidal sinuses is extremely rare. Thousands of pilonidal cysts and sinuses are operated upon each year, and malignancy is almost never encountered. Only 26 cases of malignancy arising in pilonidal sinuses are reported in the world literature. We report a
Fewer than 50 cases of carcinoma arising in a pilonidal sinus have been reported, with only 5 patients having documented inguinal lymph node metastases. This is the first report of the fine-needle aspiration (FNA) diagnosis of this uncommon clinical situation of squamous-cell carcinoma arising in a