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Riding in jeeps, touring in tanks and taking the bumps of basic training have caused such an increase in pilonidal-cyst disorders that some doctors call them jeep disease. Cause: an infection of a congenital cyst at the base of a man's spine. Chief symptom: it hurts to sit down...
Many a pilonidal cyst is never discovered. Discovery usually results from an infection, or an irritation like a jeep ride or a heavy fall (one doctor calls his lady pilonidal patients "basketball girls...
Standard treatment is to cut out the whole sac, leaving a wound so large that it must be kept partly open to heal gradually. A serviceman needs 60 to 90 days healing time before he can go back on duty. In 1940 the Navy found that the cysts were responsible for more hospitalization than hernia or syphilis. In last week's Southern Medical Journal, Dr. Louis Arthur Buie of the Mayo Clinic said that after draft officials got over being choosy and started sending along pilonidal cyst cases, "overconscientious" Army & Navy surgeons began operating on all cysts, even uninfected...
...healing time safely, he offers a compromise technique. First Dr. Buie determines the direction of the cyst's channels with a probe. Then he opens up each channel, removes the normal skin above it and, if the cyst wall is reasonably healthy, stitches the wall to the surrounding skin. By using the cyst wall as skin, Dr. Buie avoids wasting much tissue. Average healing time is 30 days...
After long, exhaustive examinations Budapest neurologists told the 47-year-old poet that an egg-sized cyst webbed with tiny blood vessels was sprouting on the right side of his brain, back of his cerebellum. If he did not have it removed in ten days, they said, he would become paralyzed and blind...