Video Assisted Ablation of Pilonidal Sinus

Federico II University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pilonidal Sinus

Treatments: Procedure: Video Assisted Ablation of Pilonidal Sinus

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01963273

Surgery

5082

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators supposed that the complete video assisted ablation of pilonidal sinus (VAAPS) could be an effective minimally invasive treatment of pilonidal sinus. This new minimally invasive treatment allows the identification of the sinus cavity with its lateral tracks, the destruction and the removal of all infected tissue and the removing of any hair.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosis of chronic pilonidal sinus

Exclusion criteria

Inability to consent to the study Recurrent pilonidal sinus after an outmidline technique

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

pilonidal sinuses

Experimental group

Description:

All consecutive patients with diagnosis of chronic sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus will be screened for the enrollment in our study.

Treatment:

Procedure: Video Assisted Ablation of Pilonidal Sinus