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How harmful for your health is a surgery for a pilonidal cyst?
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If it is just : Drainage, it is not so bad. If this is definitive excision for a recurrent abscess, it can take a few weeks to two months to heal. But surgery is only on skin and subcutaneous tissue and does not involve internal organs, so it is not a dangerous operation. Ask your surgeon for details.
Answered 9/7/2013
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