For a surgeon some operations are easier to learn than others. The cleft-lift procedure can be challenging to learn, and one of the problems for a surgeon trying to learn this without a mentor, is knowing when a cleft-lift looks good, as opposed to when it needs more tweaking. An operation like an appendectomy is
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This year’s conference presented a rare opportunity to hear pilonidal surgeons from all over the world share their experiences and techniques in dealing with this problem. One of the main points of agreement in this conference was that IN 2019 THERE IS NO PLACE FOR WIDE EXCISION AS A TREATMENT FOR PILONIDAL DISEASE. The presenters
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Vienna, Austria, September 2019 I am looking forward to the upcoming meeting of the International Pilonidal Society conference in Vienna, Austria later this month. There will be speakers from all over the world describing their knowledge and experiences with various ways to deal with this complex disease. I am honored to have been asked to
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What are the role of imaging studies in the treatment of pilonidal disease? Any time you perform an imaging study of one kind or another, it is important that the result adds to your understand what is going on, and helps guide treatment. There are various studies used to evaluate the presence and extent of
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