Surgical Treatment in Recurred Axillary Osmidrosis

Park, Dae Hwan; Choo, Kyo Jin; Ahn, Ki Young; Song, Chul Hong

Abstract

There are several surgical or non-surgical methods for osmidrosis, which have their own merits and drawbacks. Especially, recurrence and scarring of operation site are cumbersome problems. One of the limitations of each method is recurrence of osmidrosis. The authors evaluated surgical treatments of recurrent cases. The authors experienced 14 recurrent osmidrosis cases from January 1998 to December 2003. Previous methods in recurrent cases are as follows; dermal shaving with Inaba dermal shaver(3 cases), liposuction method(10 cases), non-surgical hair removal method(4 cases). The authors managed recurrent cases with radical excision in 4 recurrent cases which had severe scar with large fibrotic tissue due to previous operations, and dermal manual resection in 10 cases. We had no recurrence in our series and no complications like hematoma, seroma, infection, wound disruption or dehiscence and brachial plexus compression. In conclusion, dermal manual resection can be applied to recurrent osmidrosis cases, and radical resection is also applicable to managing recurrent cases with severe scar with large fibrotic tissue.