Table 1.

Surgical results of a surgeon’s 35-year experience with pilonidal disease in children

Result	Total no. (%)patients, n = 207	Treatment; no. (%)*
		Excision and packed open, n = 90	Marsupialized, n = 13	Excision and closed primarily without drainage, n = 4
Mean healing time, d†	39	75	34	8
First recurrence‡	24 (22)	20 (22)	3 (23)	1 (25)
Second recurrence‡	6 (25)	5 (25)	1 (33)	0

^*Unless otherwise indicated.

^†p = 0.031.

^‡Odds ratio 0.24–4.24, p = 0.12, on multivariable logistic regression.