Limberg flap versus Karydakis flap for treating pilonidal sinus disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Abstract
Background: The Limberg flap reconstruction and the Karydakis flap reconstruction are the 2 most used off-midline closure techniques in pilonidal sinus surgery. The current evidence is inconclusive as to which is the optimal technique. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare differences in outcomes between these 2 flap-based techniques. Methods: We identified studies by a systematic literature search of the Embase, MEDLINE (PubMed), Cochrane Library and Google Scholar databases and studies selected as per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) checklist. Only randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared the Limberg flap (standard or modified) and the Karydakis flap were included in this review. Results: Operative time was shorter by 7 minutes in the Karydakis group than in the Limberg group (mean difference 7.00 min, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.53 to 13.48). The seroma formation rate was significantly higher in the Karydakis cohort (odds ratio [OR] 0.36, 95% CI 0.24 to 0.56); however, after excluding studies with a high risk of bias, the sensitivity analysis showed no significant differences in seroma formation rate between the 2 techniques (OR 0.76, 95% CI 0.31 to 1.85). Other outcomes of interest showed no significant differences between the Limberg and Karydakis techniques. Conclusion: There were no significant differences between the Limberg and Karydakis techniques. Future RCTs with strict adherence to CONSORT guidelines will further elucidate the efficacy of these surgical procedures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.013 | 0.010 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".