TY - JOUR T1 - A comparison of closed surgery with deep suturing and secondary repair (open) in treating pilonideal disease in Fourth Air Force Base and Ayatollah Nabavi Hospital in Dezful TT - مقایسه دو روش جراحی بسته با بخیه عمقی و ترمیم ثانویه (باز) سینوس پایلونیدال در بیمارستان پایگاه چهارم شکاری و بیمارستان آیت‌ا... نبوی دزفول طی سال‌های 1383-1381 JF - ابهاد-نهاجا JO - ابهاد-نهاجا VL - 10 IS - 2 UR - http://ebnesina.ajaums.ac.ir/article-1-81-en.html Y1 - 2007 SP - 15 EP - 19 KW - pilonideal disease KW - treatment KW - primary repair N2 - Background: Pilonideal disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of the sacrococcygeal region that affects mainly young hairy males. Its pathogenesis is not completely understood. The only successful treatment is surgery. In this study two surgical approaches were compared in terms of length of operation, hospital stay, recovery time, number of postoperative visits, size of scar, and postoperative infection and pain. Materials and methods: Patients with chronic pilonideal disease were selected from 108 patients. They were randomly assigned to either closed surgery group (n=41) or secondary repair group (n=43) and followed for one year post operatively. Data were analyzed in the SPSS software using t and chi square tests. Results: Eighty-four patients with an average age of 24 years (range: 16-37) were studied including 44 men (52.4%) and 40 women (48.6%). The closed surgery technique was significantly superior in all the above mentioned parameters except length of operation (p M3 ER -