Fabrício Doin Paz Oliveira, Sonia Cristina Cordero Time, Ana Carolina Buffara Blitzkow, Lucas Rodrigues Boarini, Aline Amaro Munhóz, Ricardo Everton Dias Mont'Alverne
Laser surgery, a minimally invasive procedure for the definitive approach to pilonidal disease (PD), has been frequently studied in recent years. This study aims to describe a new pilonidotomy method using minimal laser energy and evaluate its initial results. This is a retrospective multicenter study. We included 47 consecutive patients who underwent 50 "minimal energy pilonidotomies (MELPi)" between 2019 and 2023 in four centers in Brazil. Age, BMI, gender, smoking, diabetes, Guner classification, duration of illness, energy, hospitalization time, complications, recurrence, wound closure, pain, and return to activities were analyzed...
May 4, 2024: Updates in Surgery