Open excision with secondary healing versus rhomboid excision with limberg transposition flap in the management of sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 157-160

  Jamal, Akmal ^a   Shamim, Muhammad ^b   Hashmi, Fazila ^a   Qureshi, Muhammad Idrees ^b  

^a Liaquat University Eye Hospital   (Pakistan)

^b BAQAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION REPAIR; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PILONIDAL SINUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN TRANSPOSITION FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PAKISTAN; PILONIDAL SINUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63049116717     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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