News from Norway

Dear Dr. Ruiken, (To you on the "pilonidal" emailing list, I will send this time "open Cc:", instead of "blind Bcc:" so you can see what a spread your news reaches!)

Dr. Ruiken, you feel heartened by your experience, right? For you try always to bring health to patients, correct? This is very good news from Norway! Publish and teach! Thank you!

I will share your experience with some 70+/- from around the world and add your name to the email list and to the list of doctors who do cleft lift. Learn of new and improved pit picking for early pilonidals, and of saline overload in the USA which needs similar work!

John Bascom, MD
65 W 30th Ave. #3710
Eugene, OR 97405
Phone 541-434-4118

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Date: July 1, 2010 4:03:38 AM PDT
To:
Subject: SV: doc list

Hello,

i am working in Norway, at the "Ålesund sjukehus".
To years ago i started operating pilonidalcysts with "cleft lift procedure".

At the beginning i was alone, now we are three who do this procedure. Very little "open procedure" (excise and lay i open).

We have don 42 operasjons:

38 primer tilhealing
2 seromas med spontan perforation
1 infeksjon med sugical opning at it was good 4 weaks after operasjon.
1 with an 1 cm dehiszens in the scar. I took 1 year to get rid of this open 1 cm: He cam from an other city, and in our treatment with barbering the hair it was good after 3 weeks.

I can say that this experience with good results will motivate oss to continue with "cleft lift".

Greetings

Roland Ruiken
seksjonsoverlege dagkirurgi
Ålesund sjukehus
Helse Sunnmøre HF
6020 Ålesund
Norge
Fra: John Bascom [mailto:jbascomr@pacinfo.com]
Sendt: 29. juni 2010 16:15
Til: Rosen, Nelson G.
Emne: doc list

Nelson, Bcc:pilonidal

TTT Things Take Time! Keep throwing mud at a wall--some of it will stick! Look at Sandy's list- http://www.pilonidal.org/pdfs/PiloMDs_NON-USA_06_2010.pdf - 100 surgeons from the US and 70 from all over the world know of cleft lift. And when Sandy started a web on pilonidals there were NONE! Plus this message and others addressed to pilonidal goes by email to some 70+ professionals from over the world. Give us your experience and we will spread it around. Keep learning! Publish! Thanks for your past contributions and thanks for your teaching of the younger generation. And in August we will host a surgeon from Denmark to Oregon who comes to learn. And I, at urging of Sandy, have just started a blog. Do you have anything the world should know? Send it and I will get it out--the world may not listen but at least it will be off your mind. JUB



On Jun 28, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Rosen, Nelson G. wrote:

Very frustrating to read.

I am a pediatric surgeon but have not been turning away anyone who would benefit from a lift.

I have not been successful at encouraging my adult colleagues to adopt these techniques. I guess you can lead a horse to water, but that doesn't make the horse any smarter.

-Nelson Rosen

Nelson Rosen, MD, FACS, FAAP
Director, Trauma Center
Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York
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Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Hofstra School of Medicine

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