Skin problems or excessive friction can cause the hair between buttocks to be pushed inwards. This can lead to a pilonidal cyst formation Foul smelling pus may be observed draining from the pilonidal ...

I am 22 years old and have had trouble with a cyst on my tailbone for years. Once or twice a year the cyst begins to hurt, and then opens up and drains spontaneously. Should I see my doctor about this ...

Dr. Ali Mahmood, a certified colon and rectal surgeon at the Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, recently performed the first-ever rhomboid flap surgery in Fort Bend County. Mahmood used the rhomboid flap ...

According to the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Pilonidal disease is a chronic skin infection that affects about 70,000 people in the United States annually. While the cause is not ...

A pilonidal sinus is a small tunnel that develops at the top of the crease in the buttocks. Trapped hair around the buttocks crease can lead to an abscess, and a pilonidal sinus may develop as a ...

THE ideal of all surgical treatment is to effect a cure, and in pilonidal cyst and sinus the basic aim is to prevent recurrence, lessen the period of disability and obtain a good mechanical result.

Your ‘butt floss’ can even cause ingrown hairs or folliculitis from the irritation of the hair follicles near your bottom, ...