-Case Reports-

A Rare Occupational Disease of Hair Dressers: Interdigital Pilonidal Sinus

A. Cagri Uysal¹, Hakan Orbay², Muhammet Uraloglu², Omer Sensoz² and Hiko Hyakusoku¹

¹Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Regenerative Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School
²Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Turkey

Interdigital pilonidal sinus is a rare occupational disease related to work with short hair. Hair dresser's disease is the interdigital pilonidal sinus encountered in male barbers. A case of pilonidal sinus in the interdigital web is reported. We performed surgical excision and primary closure. There were neither complications nor recurrence in the third month after excision. We propose that surgical excision is inevitable and that any primary treatment can improve the patients' postoperative comfort. Thus, primary closure or closure with a flap, instead of secondary healing, should always be the first choice of treatment for a defect due to excision of an interdigital pilonidal sinus.

J Nippon Med Sch 2007; 74: 364-366

Keywords
pilonidal sinus, interdigital web space, hairdresser, barber

Correspondence to
A. Cagri Uysal, MD, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan
cagriuysal@hotmail.com, cagriuysal@yahoo.com

Received, August 21, 2006
Accepted, June 27, 2007