Interdisciplinary management of patients with abscessed disruptive folliculitis and perifolliculitis Hoffman's
Introduction. The article describes a rare, chronic inflammatory, often relapsing skin disease of the scalp, less often inguinal and axillary areas, characterized by the formation of abscesses, followed by cicatricial atrophy, -absessing undermining folliculitis and perftolliculitis Hoffmann (APPGG). Patients with APFIG seek medical help for both dermatovenerologic doctors and surgeons, who generally view this disease as pyoderma and accordingly prescribe antibacterial drugs, use surgical methods of treatment that are often ineffective. The goal is to describe the clinical cases of patients observed at the clinical base of the Department of Skin and Sexually transmitted Diseases of the Federal State Educational Establishment of Higher Medical Education in the UGMU of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Health. Determination of the tactics of interdisciplinary interaction between dermatovenereologists and surgeons. Differential diagnosis of the disease with various dermatoses. Results. The described cases of patients (4 people) prove complex differential diagnosis with such dermatoses as furunculosis, infiltrative-suppuration trichophytosis. Also, interdisciplinary management of patients by dermatovenerologists and surgeons is described. Conclusions: APPGG is a rare dermatosis in clinical practice requiring joint work of related specialists, differential diagnosis using laboratory methods of investigation.