Below are suggested reading and educational material on pilonidal disease, selected for trainees.
- An international survey exploring the management of pilonidal disease (2023)
- Cleft closure (the Bascom cleft lift) for 714 patients - treatment of choice for complex and recurrent pilonidal disease (a cohort study) (2023)
- A survey of treatment preferences of UK surgeons in the treatment of pilonidal sinus disease (2023)
- Patient preferences for pilonidal sinus treatments: a discrete choice experiment survey (2023)
- The ‘combined’ biopsy punch excision to treat pilonidal disease - a video vignette (2023)
- Modified Karydakis procedure for sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease under local anaesthesia - a video vignette (2023)
- Bascom's cleft lift procedure for pilonidal sinus disease - a video vignette (2023)
- Endoscopic sinusectomy: 'a rose by any other name'. A systematic review of different endoscopic procedures to treat pilonidal disease (2022)
- Long-term outcome after Bascom's pit-pick procedure for pilonidal sinus disease: a cohort study (2022)
- Long-term outcome after Bascom's cleft-lift procedure under tumescent local analgesia for pilonidal sinus disease: a cohort study (2022)
- Sinus laser therapy - a video vignette (2022)
- Pilonidal disease. Three flap procedures every colorectal surgeon should know - a video vignette (2021)
- SMILE technique for pilonidal sinus destruction with a radial laser probe - a video vignette (2021)
- Sinus laser therapy versus sinus lay open in the management of sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease (2021)
- Squamous cell carcinoma related to chronic sacroccocygeal sinus. Radical excision and reconstruction with a SGAP flap – a video vignette (>2021)
- Negative pressure wound therapy following excision of pilonidal sinus disease: A retrospective review (2021)
- Limberg flap for pilonidal sinus disease: a video vignette (2020)
- Use of keystone advance flap for pilonidal disease: a video vignette (2020)
- Video-assisted ablation of pilonidal sinus: a video vignette (2020)
- Long-term results of endoscopic pilonidal sinus treatment vs Limberg flap for treatment of difficult cases of complicated pilonidal disease: a prospective, nonrandomized study (2019)
- A new minimally invasive treatment of pilonidal sinus disease with the use of a diode laser: a prospective large series of patients (2018)
- Endoscopic pilonidal sinus treatment: a prospective multicentre trial (2016)
- Investigation of the relationship between serum hormones and pilonidal sinus disease: a cross-sectional study (2014)
- Modification of the Bascom cleft lift procedure for chronic pilonidal sinus: results in 141 patients (2013)