Outpatient Treatment of Pilonidal Disease with a 1470nm Diode Laser; Initial Experience : Table 1

Table 1: Characteristics of patients treated and technical details regarding the procedures performed.

Patient	1	2	3	4	5
Gender	f	m	f	m	m
Age	21	15	17	20	26
Disease	primary	primary	primary	recurrent (2nd time)	primary (Crohn’s disease)
Prior abscess	yes	no	yes	no	yes
No of sinuses treated	1	5	4	3	4
Procedure duration (min)	18’	45’	55’	39’	58’
Laser energy applied (total)	417 J	714 J	1197 J	527 J	890 J
Healing time	3 weeks	5 weeks	6 weeks	6 weeks	5 weeks