Primary Wound Closure Using a Limberg Flap Versus Secondary Wound Healing Following Pilonidal Sinus Excision

Kantonsspital Liestal102 enrolled

Overview

To compare primary wound closure using a limberg flap with secondary (p.s.) wound healing following excision of a pilonidal sinus.

Patients who gave their informed consent who had excision of pilonidal sinus were randomly assigned to group A (primary wound closure with a Limberg flap) or to group B (open wound and p.s.wound healing).

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

102

Conditions

Pilonidal Sinus

Interventions

secondary wound healingPROCEDURE

secondary wound healing

primary wound closure using a limberg flapPROCEDURE

primary wound closure using a limberg flap

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * indication for excision of pilonidal sinus given Exclusion Criteria: * limberg flap not possible for surgical reasons

Locations (3)

Kantonsspital Liest

Liestal, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland

Gesundheitszentrum Fricktal

Rheinfelden, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland

Spitalzentrum Oberwallis

Visp, Valais, Switzerland

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Inability to work

change for capacity for work at one year post-OP

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Pain perioperatively and after 3 weeks

Time frame: 0 and 3 weeks

Complication rate after 3 weeks

Time frame: 3 weeks

Patient satisfaction after 3 weeks & 1year

Time frame: 3 weeks and 1 year

Recurrence rate after 1 year

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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