The clinical genetics of hidradenitis suppurativa revisited
โ Scribed by J.M. Von Der Werth; H.C. Williams; J.A. Raeburn
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 702 KB
- Volume
- 142
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-0963
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Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic inflammatory disease of the apocrine sweat glands. Patients suffer recurrent infections of these glands in the axillae, groin and perineal areas. Response to conservative therapy is unpredictable and often short-lived though recent reports of improved success wi
## Summary We describe our experience in the use of a Silastic foam dressing in 17 patients undergoing radical excision of hidradenitis suppurativa whose wounds were allowed to heal by granulation. Axillary excisions were carried out in 9 patients and perineal excisions in 8 patients. The technique