Verneuil's disease in the differential diagnosis of suppuration of the ano-perineo-buttock region
Gertsch, P.; Mosimann, R.
Helvetica Chirurgica Acta 47(3-4): 477-481
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0018-0181 PMID: 7204067 Document Number: 156971
Verneuil's disease or hidradenitis suppurativa is not frequent. Nevertheless since VERNEUIL's classic description in 1854, many cases have been reported. It is a disease of the apocrine sweat glands, that may arise on each of their localizations: axilla, breast areolae, umbilicus, perineum, groin, buttocks. The chronic suppurative disease of these glands give rise to multiple fistulous constantly infected tracts. The typical appearance usually allows a clinical diagnosis. Other disease may nevertheless look like hidradenitis suppurativa. We present two cases and discuss the differential diagnosis between the hidradenitis suppurativa and the chronic infection of a pilonidal cyst.