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328 The ASCRS Manual of Colon and Rectal Surgery
Gluteal cleft
Midline pits
Anus
Fig. 15.2. Shaving technique.
Two-inch area shaved around gluteal cleft (proximity of pits to anus may limit this)
• Simply cover the wound with a dressing and have the patient do sitz baths or use a hand-held shower 2–3 times a day.
• The patient should return to the offi ce every week or two until the wound heals. Any hair that has grown back within 2 in. of the entire gluteal cleft is shaved at each visit (Fig. 15.2 ).
Initial Presentation: Draining Pilonidal Chronic Abscess
• Pilonidal disease has been treated in many different ways, but no treatment has proved completely satisfactory.
Nonsurgical Approach
Shaving
• For the initial treatment of chronic disease (which can be a chronic sinus that has never been treated or any persistent disease that has failed to heal despite treatment), shaving alone has been advocated as the sole alternative treatment for pilonidal disease.
• Physicians should consider shaving as the initial therapy in all patients without an acute or chronic abscess and localized disease. However, no one knows how long one should continue shaving in order to prevent recurrence. Currently, we recommend shaving until complete healing has occurred.
15. Pilonidal Disease and Hidradenitis Suppurativa 329
Surgical Approaches
Midline Excision
• The most frequently performed operation for pilonidal disease is midline excision, with or without primary closure of the wound, because most chronic or recurrent disease presents while localized to the midline. In this procedure, only the clearly abnormal tissue in the midline is excised. It is not necessary to always excise down to presacral fascia.
• No clear benefi t exists for the use of primary closure after midline excision. Proponents of primary closure cite the accelerated healing rate in patients in whom this approach is successful. However, this comes with the price of a signifi cantly increased chance of more wound infections.
Unroofi ng and Secondary Healing
• Midline excision without primary closure leaves a large wound, which is associated with long healing times. If wound closure is not indicated (i.e., with an associated abscess), a smaller wound with much shorter healing times can be achieved with unroofi ng or laying open of the pilonidal sinus (Fig. 15.3a ). Open wounds require dressing changes and wound care, but unroofi ng is associated with half the healing time of wide and deep excision. The recurrence rate is less than 13% with this technique.
Bascom’s Chronic Abscess Curettage and Midline Pit Excision (Bascom I)
• Bascom bases this procedure on the premise that efforts to help patients with pilonidal disease should be directed at changing the gluteal cleft conditions rather than excising a large amount of normal tissue associated with the diseased areas. In patients who present initially with a chronic abscess, this procedure has given excellent results (Fig. 15.3b ). – He does this by making a generous, vertically oriented
incision through the site of the abscess cavity more than 1 cm off the midline (in some cases more than one chronic abscess is present) and then curetting it out, without excising the fi brous abscess wall.
– The connecting tracts to the midline pits are also identifi ed
and the overlying skin undermined so that they drain to the site of the incision.
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a
Incision (to be
left open)
Gluteal cleft
Undermined area communicating with pits
Chronic
abscess/
pilonidal sinus
Midline pits (excised)
Anus
b
Open
incision
site
Fig. 15.3. ( a ) Bascom procedure. Lateral incision and debridement of cavity. ( b ) Bascom procedure. Removal of a midline pits with small incisions after lateral debridement, and closure of midline wounds without closure of the lateral incision.
Gluteal cleft
Closed midline pits (interrupted 4-0 Prolene)
Anus
– The midline pits are then excised using a small diamond-
shaped incision to circumferentially remove each of them. According to Bascom, the excised pit should be about the size of a grain of rice.
15. Pilonidal Disease and Hidradenitis Suppurativa 331
– The undermined fl ap of skin, between the incision and
drainage site and the excised midline pits, is then tacked down, and the pit excision sites are closed with either subcuticular or vertical mattress, nonabsorbable suture (4-0 or 3-0)
– Once this has been accomplished, meticulous shaving
of the gluteal cleft should continue at least once a week until the wound has healed. Shaving can be done in the physician’s offi ce, or at home by a family member or friend who has been given the proper instruction.
• To date, no trials compare Bascom’s procedure with another approach to chronic abscess.
Treatment: Recurrent Disease and Severe Disease
• Controversy exists over how to treat and follow patients who heal, but continue to present with multiple recurrent disease despite attempts at limited surgery and the other conservative measures discussed above.
• In addition to midline excision, the surgical options often used today, after initial shaving and hygiene methods have failed, include rhomboid fl aps, Z-plasty, the Karydakis procedure, Bascom’s cleft lift procedure, V-Y plasty, gluteus maximus myocutaneous fl aps, and skin grafting (Table 15.1 ).
• The major disadvantages with fl aps are longer operative times, greater blood loss, potential fl ap loss, and infection. However, these fl aps do offer a quicker time to healing than midline excision, with no increase in infection rate.
Table 15. 1. Complex pilonidal procedure results.
Procedure
Rhomboid fl ap 100 13.5 4.9 Karydakis – 8.5 1 Bascom cleft lift 100 – 0 V-Y plasty 100 8 0 Z-plasty 100 – 0 Myocutaneous fl ap 100 100 0 Skin graft 96.6 – 1.7
% Healing
(mean)
% Complications
(mean)
% Recurrence
(mean)
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Rhomboid Flap
• The rhomboid, or Limberg fl ap, is a cutaneous rotational fl ap used to fi ll soft tissue defects and is ideally suited for this purpose with regard to pilonidal disease (Fig. 15.4a –d).
• Despite the overall good results with use of the rhomboid fl ap for recalcitrant pilonidal disease, this technique necessitates excision of a large amount of normal tissue and subsequently
a
b
Fig. 15.4. Rhomboid fl ap technique for recurrent pilonidal disease. ( a ) Initial excision of the sinus cavity. Counter incisions are created as shown. ( b ) Flaps are raised and maneuvered as shown to close defect. ( c ) Final surgical result. ( d ) Result at 1 month postoperatively.
15. Pilonidal Disease and Hidradenitis Suppurativa 333
c
d
Fig. 15.4. (continued)
creates a large scar at the fl ap site (Figure 15.4d ). Also, many patients with chronic abscesses have their abscesses located so lateral and cephalad to the midline area containing the pits, that it makes the use of this technique more morbid because of the size of the fl ap required to cover the excised area.
• With disease localized more or less to the midline, however, any abscess cavities and all the pits are easily excised. In addition, this technique works particularly well for fl ap coverage of chronic wounds (as a result of midline excisions) in the gluteal cleft that have failed to heal over a prolonged period of time.
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Karydakis Flap
• The two goals of this procedure are (1) to eccentrically excise “vulnerable” tissue in the midline, or laterally displace it; and (2) to laterally displace the surgical wound out of the midline gluteal cleft.
• The large numbers of patients that have received this operation along with the good reported results make this an attractive option to consider. However, no one else has ever studied this or reported their results, nor are there any comparative trials.
Bascom Cleft Lift (Bascom II)
• The key difference between the cleft lift procedure and other fl ap-based procedures is that the cleft lift procedure excises no normal subcutaneous tissue.
a
Subcutaneous
tissue
b
Suture line
Tissue
excised from
left side
Skin to be
excised
Gluteal
cleft
Sacrum
Midline
Flap
Gluteal fat approximated at midline
Sacrum
Fig. 15.5. ( a ) Cleft-lift technique as described by Bascom for nonhealing midline wounds. ( b ) Final result after fl aps are raised and underlying gluteal fat is approximated.
15. Pilonidal Disease and Hidradenitis Suppurativa 335
• The goal of the cleft lift procedure is to undermine and completely obliterate the gluteal cleft in the diseased area.
• This procedure detaches the skin of the gluteal cleft from the underlying subcutaneous tissue as a fl ap. A portion of this fl ap containing the diseased skin is then excised from the side of the buttocks to which the fl ap will be sutured (Fig. 15.5a , b).
• The median follow-up was 20 months (range, 1 month to 15 years) and all patients remained healed. This procedure has enjoyed spectacular results in Dr. Bascom’s hands, but it awaits duplication elsewhere.
V-Y Plasty
• It may have applicability in some situations in which other fl aps have failed, such as the rhomboid fl ap.
Z-plasty
• Surgeons experienced with this technique recommend that an asymmetric closure, such as the Karydakis, be considered initially before using the rotational fl ap procedures, because these may be unnecessarily complex.
Myocutaneous Flaps
• Larger areas of disease with large, deep wounds may require myocutaneous fl aps.
• Most surgeons reserve this technique for the most severe cases, usually after failure of simpler techniques.
Skin Grafting
• No study looking at skin grafting for pilonidal disease has been published since 1983 when Guyuron et al. published their ret­rospective study of 58 patients so treated.
• The authors recommended use of this method for recurrent or extensive pilonidal disease.
Summary
• The algorithm in Fig. 15.6 delineates an approach to pilonidal disease based on the evidence presented in this section.
• Conservative treatment ought to form the cornerstone of therapy – specifi cally, wide, meticulous shaving and hygiene.
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First presentation with
pilonidal disease – no abscess
Two-inch strip shave
Two-inch strip shave–
weekly
Resolution
Two-inch strip shave–
weekly
Resolution
Severe disease –
large surface area
Consider myocutaneous flap,
cleft-lift procedure, or excision
and skin grafting
First abscess
Incision and drainage
Healed wounds with
midline pits and sinuses
Recurrent abscess or
persistent disease
Midline excision
Multiply recurrent
disease
Bascom procedure or
flap/asymmetric closure
Fig. 15.6. Pilonidal disease algorithm.
The best evidence available suggests that shaving should be done until healing is complete, either in patients treated primarily this way, or those treated with surgery. When patients present initially with simple midline pits, sinuses, and various symptoms, such as pain and occasional drainage, but no acute abscess, shaving can again be offered as the initial treatment.
• A patient who presents with an acute pilonidal abscess should have incision and drainage, ideally making the incision lateral to the midline whenever possible. At the same time, one should do a 2-in. strip shave circumferentially around the affected area.
• The majority of patients do not recur after conservative treatment consisting of incision and drainage and shaving. For these reasons, we do not recommend continued shaving once healing is complete.
• Patients who present with multiply recurrent pilonidal disease, meaning disease occurring sometime after healing of prior episodes (i.e., abscesses, new pits) are more challenging. – In this case, we prefer to move on to the Bascom chronic
abscess curettage and midline pit excision, or a cutaneous
15. Pilonidal Disease and Hidradenitis Suppurativa 337
fl ap procedure. For the initial management of the chronic abscess, virtually all cases can be done as an outpatient in the operating room under local anesthesia with conscious sedation.
• Neither antibiotics nor drains have been shown to be helpful on a routine basis. However, when taking on complex fl ap procedures or skin grafts, antibiotics may be used perioperatively based on evidence from other arenas of surgery proving their benefi t.
• The evidence presented here also shows that more complications and recurrences occur with midline excision and primary closure than with open excision alone. However, time to healing is greater with open excision.
• Despite the good results reported with the fl aps and asymmetric closures for pilonidal disease, midline excision or unroofi ng does seem to work most of the time, and has the advantage of simplicity.
• Cutaneous rotational fl aps and asymmetric closures may best be reserved for the patient with a laterally located chronic abscess, multiply recurrent disease, a large area of involvement, or a nonhealing wound.
• If the patient presents with a draining sinus, alternately known as a chronic abscess, the surgeon fi rst needs to note the location of the sinus relative to the midline. In the case in which all the disease, sinuses, and pits are located near and in the midline, then a conservative midline excision is a reasonable fi rst-line treatment. A Bascom procedure for a chronic abscess/sinus is also reasonable.
• Many times, however, multiple draining sinuses exist and can be located far enough away from the midline that a simple midline excision becomes impractical because of the larger wound created. In this case, we typically make a choice between a Bascom I and a rhomboid fl ap.
• As always, shaving should continue with the proper vigilance until healing is complete.
• For a small, chronic nonhealing wound from a prior operation for pilonidal disease, a rotational flap is ideal. We prefer the rhomboid fl ap for this purpose. For extensive recurrence in the midline with abscesses and multiple nonhealing wounds, the Bascom II procedure has shown great promise.