Structured Summary
Abstract
A hair-containing cyst or sinus, occurring chiefly in the coccygeal region.
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5 entry terms
- Pilonidal Cyst
- Cyst, Pilonidal
- Cysts, Pilonidal
- Pilonidal Cysts
- Sinus, Pilonidal
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38 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, blood supply, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, chemistry, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, ultrastructure, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
non-neoplastic; no organ coordinate needed
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History Note
97; was PILONIDAL CYST 1963-96; PILONIDAL SINUS was see PILONIDAL CYST 1978-96
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WE 750
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Pilonidal Sinus. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010864. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010864
- Pilonidal Sinus. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_disease
- Pilonidal Sinus. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q961331