Barber's interdigital pilonidal sinus of the hand: a foreign body hair granuloma

J Hand Surg Am. 1990 Jul;15(4):652-5. doi: 10.1016/s0363-5023(09)90031-4.

Abstract

Interdigital pilonidal sinus of the hand is an occupational disease of male barbers. Customers' hairs penetrate the supple interdigital skin, cause a sinus, and later a cyst. Through the sinus, the hairs get entrapped and may occasionally be expressed. Excision of the sinus or the cyst is curative.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Barbering*
  • Foreign Bodies* / pathology
  • Foreign Bodies* / surgery
  • Granuloma / etiology*
  • Granuloma / pathology
  • Granuloma / surgery
  • Hair
  • Hand* / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Occupational Diseases / etiology*
  • Occupational Diseases / pathology
  • Occupational Diseases / surgery
  • Pilonidal Sinus / etiology*
  • Pilonidal Sinus / pathology
  • Pilonidal Sinus / surgery
  • Sex Factors