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Review
. 1990 Jul;15(4):652-5.
doi: 10.1016/s0363-5023(09)90031-4.

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

M R Patel  1 , L Bassini, R Nashad, M T Anselmo
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Barber's interdigital pilonidal sinus of the hand: a foreign body hair granuloma

M R Patel et al. J Hand Surg Am. 1990 Jul.

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.

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