Sadaf Mohammadi, Abbas Gholami, Lina Hejrati, Masoomeh Rohani, Raheleh Rafiei-Sefiddashti, Alireza Hejrati
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition that is more common in females, especially during puberty and menopause. These inflammatory lesions include painful deep-seated nodules and abscesses, draining sinus tracts, and fibrotic scars. This article is a narrative review to explain whole disease aspects, including complication, causes, epidemiology, history, classification, prognosis, comorbidities, the effect of sex hormone, and potent treatments. Most patients with HS, who are not aware of their primary disease, visit primary care physicians to superinfection lesions instead of specialists...
November 2021: Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care