Pilonidal Medical Library

This website has an extensive collection of Pilonidal related literature, much of which has been written for other medical professionals. All of these are written in medical jargon, patients who need to translate terminology might want to visit Medterms

Dr. John Bascom and Dr. Tom Bascom have done some of the most widely recognized pioneering treatments of Pilonidal Disease and we lead with their works. Dr. John Bascom was the first medical professional to sit on the Board of Directors of the Pilonidal Support Alliance and much of this website was made possible by his generous sharing of information learned from over 600 Pilonidal Surgeries in his career. Even after his retirement, Dr. Bascom committed himself to furthering research and advancing better techniques to heal Pilonidal patients. He left us in 2013 but his work and determination to find better ways to treat Pilonidal Disease have changed lives all over the globe. His work is continued by his son, Dr. Thomas Bascom.

Drs. John & Tom Bascom

Understanding Pilonidals
This is a slide presentation created by Dr. John Bascom designed to showcase Pit Picking with pictures.

Pilonidals: Distilled Wisdom
Bascom, Società Italiana di Chirurgia ColoRettale, 2010

Pilonidal disease: Origin from follicles of hairs and results of follicle removal as treatment
Bascom, originally published in Surgery 1980, Updated in 2006

Pit Picking Quick Tutorial
Bascom, Special to Pilonidal.org 2010

Failed Pilonidal Surgery
Bascom, Archives of Surgery 2002

Pilonidal Sinus
Bascom, Current Theory in Colon & Rectal Surgery 1990

Dr. Paul Kitchen

Pilonidal Sinus: Management in the Primary Care Setting
Kitchen, Australian Family Physician, June 2010

Pilonidal Sinus: The Modified Karydakis Operation
Kitchen, Special to Pilonidal.org, Spring 2010

Dr. James Pingree

Pilonidal Disease – Dr. James Pingree
Patient hand-out that Dr. Pingree gives to all his patients about Pilonidal Disease.

Pilonidal Disease: A Conservative Treatment
Pingree, American College of Surgeons 2001

Other Publications

A novel approach for treatment of sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus: less is more
Soll/Pozzo/Hahnloser/Dindo/Clavien/Hertzer, International Journal of Colorectal Disease 2007

The Treatment of Pilonidal Disease: Guidelines of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery
Segre/Pozzo/Perinotti/Roche, Techniques in Coloproctology 2015

Minimal Surgery for Pilonidal Disease Using Trephines: Description of a New Technique and Long-Term Outcomes in 1,358 Patients
Gips/Melki/Salem/Weil/Sulkes, Diseases of the Colon & Rectum 2008

Healing by primary closure versus open healing after surgery for pilonidal sinus
McCallum, British Medical Journal 2008

Pilonidal Sinus Disease
Harding/Miller, World Wide Wounds 2003

Cytokeratin Expression in Pilonidal Sinus
British Journal of Dermatology 2002

Pilonidal Sinus Disease: The Conservative Approach
Armstrong & Barcia, Archives of Surgery 1994

Easy and Successful Treatment of Pilonidal Sinus after Explanation of it’s Causative Process
Karydakis, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1992

Pilonidal Sinus: A Simple Treatment
Lord/Millar, British Journal of Surgery 1965

Wound Healing

Pilonidal Sinus Wounds: A Clinical Approach
Bannerjee, Journal of Community Nursing 1999

Managing Cavity Wounds
Pudner, Journal of Community Nursing 1998

Managing Wound Sinuses
Butcher, Nursing Times 2002

This page last updated: January 23, 2016