Mustafa Emiroğlu, Cem Karaali, Hüseyin Esin, Göksever Akpınar, Cengiz Aydın

Department of General Surgery, İzmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

Abstract

The literature indicates various approaches regarding the properties of phenol, the target patient group, and the complication and recurrence rates. Although phenol is most frequently used to treat the fistulated form of the disease, it can also be applied for other types. The overall success and complication rates of the application is reported as 62-95% and 0%-2%, respectively. Phenol treatment in pilonidal disease can be used more frequently as an alternative method with acceptable success, complication, and recurrence rates.

Keywords: Non-surgical treatment, phenol, pilonidal disease


 

Peer Review

Externally peer-reviewed.

Author Contributions

Concept - M.E., C.K.; Design - M.E., C.K.; Supervision - M.E., H.E.; Resource -C.K., G.A., H.E.; Materials - M.E., C.K., C.A.; Data Collection and/or Processing - C.K., H.E., G.A.; Analysis and/or Interpretation - C.K., C.A.; Literature Search - M.E., C.K., C.A.; Writing Manuscript - M.E., C.K.; Critical Reviews - C.K., C.A.; Other - H.E., G.A.

Conflict of Interest

No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

Financial Disclosure

The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.