Karydakis Procedure Vs Limberg Flap in Treatment of Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus

Services Hospital, Lahore

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pilonidal Sinus

Treatments: Procedure: Limberg Flap; Procedure: Karydakis procedure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03765086

s7

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be a randomized controlled trial in which there will be comparison of the effectiveness of Karydakis procedure and Limberg flap in treatment of sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with pilonidal sinus of any sex and aged 20 years or above
• Non infected pilonidal sinus

Exclusion criteria

• Infected pilonidal sinus
• Uncontrolled diabetes
• Patient on immunosuppressive therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Karydakis procedure

Active Comparator group

Description:

Karydakis Procedure: In this procedure the pilonidal sinus will be excised by semilunar incision so that the incision line closure will be away from midline.

Treatment:

Procedure: Karydakis procedure

Limberg Flap

Active Comparator group

Description:

Limberg Flap: In this procedure the pilonidal sinus will be excised by diamond shaped incision and the defect will be closed by random pattern flap.

Treatment:

Procedure: Limberg Flap