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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2444-054X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cirugía y cirujanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cir. cir.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2444-054X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Academia Mexicana de Cirugía A.C.]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S2444-054X2025000200015</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24875/ciru.22000314</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Sinus pilonidal de localización perianal. Difícil diagnóstico diferencial con fístula perianal]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Pilonidal sinus of perianal location. Difficult differential diagnosis with perianal fistula]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rubio-López]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Laura]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Benito-Barbero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Silvia]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Guillamot-Ruano]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Paloma]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Páramo-Zunzunegui]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Javier]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Universitario de Móstoles, Móstoles Servicio de Cirugía General y del Aparato Digestivo ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Madrid ]]></addr-line>
<country>España</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>93</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>231</fpage>
<lpage>233</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2444-054X2025000200015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2444-054X2025000200015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2444-054X2025000200015&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La enfermedad pilonidal generalmente surge en el área sacrococcígea en varones jóvenes. Se presenta el caso de un varón de 39 años con diagnóstico inicial de fístula perianal. A pesar de la exploración clínica y la resonancia magnética pélvica, solo durante la cirugía se evidenció que el origen de la fístula se encontraba en una enfermedad pilonidal perianal. El sinus pilonidal perianal es muy raro en la literatura. A menudo se confunde con otras enfermedades perianales, como la fístula anal. Por ello, la enfermedad pilonidal perianal debe tenerse en cuenta en el diagnóstico diferencial de la fístula perianal.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Pilonidal disease usually arises in the sacrococcygeal area in young men. We present a case of a 39-year-old male with an initial diagnosis of perianal fistula. Despite clinical examination and pelvic magnetic resonance image, only during surgery was revealed that the origin of the fistula was in perianal pilonidal disease. Perianal pilonidal sinus are very rare in the literature. It is often confused with other perianal diseases such as anal fistula. Thus, perianal pilonidal disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of perianal fistula.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Sinus pilonidal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Fístula]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Ano]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Pilonidal sinus]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Fistula]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Anus]]></kwd>
</kwd-group>
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