Barber's interdigital pilonidal sinus of the hand: a foreign body hair granuloma.

Patel, M R; Bassini, L; Nashad, R; Anselmo, M T · J Hand Surg Am · 1990

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Interdigital pilonidal sinus of the hand is an occupational disease of male barbers. Customers' hairs penetrate the supple interdigital skin, cause a sinus, and later a cyst. Through the sinus, the hairs get entrapped and may occasionally be expressed. Excision of the sinus or the cyst is curative.

Medical subject headings

Anatomy