Surgical approach to extensive hidradenitis suppurativa

Abstract

PURPOSE: Verneuil's disease or perianal hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic suppurative disease with a tendency to sinus formation, fibrosis and sclerosis. It is a disease of the apocrine sweat glands and may arise on each of the localizations where apocrine glands are prominent: axilla, breast areolae, umbilicus, perineum, groin, buttocks. We present here our experience on extensive hidradenitis suppurativa cases, with our treatment methods and outcomes.