Six female and 39 male outpatients, who suffered from acutely inflamed pilonidal sinus were treated by sclerotherapy between January 1985 and December 1988. Under local anaesthesia, 1-2 ml 80% phenol was injected into the sinus. The phenol, which was allowed to act for a minute, was washed out by irrigating the sinus with physiological common-salt solution. Of the questionnaire sent to all 45 patients, 37 proved suitable for evaluation. Complete healing occurred in 22 cases (59,8%). The healing time was 6.2 weeks on average. Besides a rather frequently observed transient reddening as a result of the local inflammation caused by the phenol, 5 patients developed an abcess which needed operative treatment. This study does not support the encouraging results of previous series. © 1994 Springer-Verlag.
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Schneider, I. H. F., Thaler, K., & Köckerling, F. (1994). Treatment of pilonidal sinuses by phenol injections. International Journal of Colorectal Disease, 9(4), 200–202. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00292250
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