Does Pilonidal Sinus Locate In The Scalp?.
Pilonidal sinus disease has been described as a hair dressers’ or (barbers’) disease because of short hairs that penetrate the interdigital spaces of the hand. Pilonidal sinus disease is common around the sacrococcygeal region but rarely seen in the anal canal, umbilicus, chest wall, ear, or on the scalp.Our case involves a 21-year-old man who was doing his military service. He complained of a mass which he had had for several years around the left occipital region of the scalp, the patient’s medical history seemed uneventful. We totally excised the lesion and sutured. After the operation, histopathology confirmed our diagnosis as pilonidal sinus of the scalp. After a three-month follow-up, the patient had made a complete recovery. Pilonidal sinus disease involves a hair-containing sinus first described by Herbert Mayo in 1833 [1]. In 1880, Hodge suggested the term “pilonidal”[2] from the Latin “pilus” for hair and “nidus” meaning nest, and later Karydakis [3,4] defined the pathogenesi
