It took less than a quarter of an hour for Doctor Francesco Esposito to operate on his patient.
This Wednesday morning, in one of the rooms of the brand new operating theater of the public hospital of Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne), the patient, a thirty-year-old, is lying on his stomach.
He received anesthesia which sedated a large area from his lower abdomen to his knee.
The surgeon made a small hole at the top of the intergluteal groove.
He used an instrument to curet the inside of the orifice.
Then he inserted a thin rod connected to a generator.
By pressing a pedal, he activated a laser which burned the entire interior, 360°.
And there you have it, no more pilonidal cyst!
The new tool adopted by the Grand Hôpital de l'Est Ile-de-France (GHEF) will change the lives of patients suffering from pilonidal cysts.
The cause of this disease is a hair that grows upside down, inside the skin.
This disease, described as “benign”, is no less disabling.
This is an abscess that originates at the top of the intergluteal groove.
Until now, the method of healing has always been the same.
The surgeons carried out the ablation of the cyst in question by removing a ball “the size of a tangerine or a large apricot”, describes Alexandre Cortes, responsible for visceral surgery at the entire GHEF.
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