Physicians' Library

Welcome to our Medical Library! Here you will find every published study that we a) felt was relevant to understanding newer and more effective Pilonidal surgical treatments and b) could obtain for distribution.

We hope that our video and PDF content will start medical professionals down the road to treatmetents that help their patients eliminate Pilonidal Disease from their lives and go on to live healthy and happy lives.

Publications:

Dr.s John & Tom Bascom

• Pilonidals: Distilled Wisdom (PDF) -
  Bascom, Società Italiana di Chirurgia ColoRettale, 2010
• Pilonidal disease: Origin from follicles of hairs and results of follicle removal as treatment (pdf) -
  Bascom, originally published in Surgery 1980, Updated in 2006
• Pit Picking Quick Tutorial (pdf) -
  Bascom, Special to Pilonidal.org 2010 New!
• Cleft Lift Published Article (pdf) -
  Bascom, Archives of Surgery 2002
  
• Pilonidal Sinus (pdf) -
  Bascom, Current Theory in Colon & Rectal Surgery 1990

Dr. Paul Kitchen

• Pilonidal Sinus: Management in the Primary Care Setting (pdf)
  Kitchen, Australian Family Physician, June 2010
• Pilonidal Sinus: The Modified Karydakis Operation (pdf)
  Kitchen, Special to Pilonidal.org, Spring 2010

Other Publications

• Minimal Surgery for Pilonidal Disease Using Trephines: Description of a New Technique and Long-Term Outcomes in 1,358 Patients (pdf)
  Gips/Melki/Salem/Weil/Sulkes, Diseases of the Colon & Rectum 2008
• Healing by primary closure versus open healing after surgery for pilonidal sinus: systematic review and meta-analysis (pdf)
  McCallum, British Medical Journal 2008
• Pilonidal Sinus Disease (pdf) -
  Harding/Miller, World Wide Wounds 2003
• Cytokeratin Expression in Pilonidal Sinus (pdf) -
  British Journal of Dermatology 2002
• Pilonidal Disease: A Conservative Treatment (pdf)
  Pingree, American College of Surgeons 2001
• Pilonidal Sinus Disease: The Conservative Approach (pdf) -
  Armstrong & Barcia, Archives of Surgery 1994
• Easy and Successful Treatment of Pilonidal Sinus after Explanation of it's Causative Process (pdf) -
  Karydakis, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1992
• Pilonidal Sinus: A Simple Treatment (pdf) -
  Lord/Millar, British Journal of Surgery 1965

Wound Healing:

• Pilonidal Sinus Wounds: A Clinical Approach (pdf) -
  Bannerjee, Journal of Community Nursing 1999
• Managing Cavity Wounds (pdf) -
  Pudner, Journal of Community Nursing 1998
• Managing Wound Sinuses (pdf) -
  Butcher, Nursing Times 2002

This page last updated: 02/11/2011