%0 Journal Article %T Quiste pilonidal gigante en un anciano Giant pilonidal cyst in an elderly man %A H¨¦ctor Bell Santos %A Marcos Antonio Santos Danger %J MEDISAN %D 2011 %I Centro Provincial de Ciencias M¨¦dicas %X Se describe el caso cl¨ªnico de un anciano con quiste pilonidal gigante, cuya informaci¨®n primaria al respecto se obtuvo de la labor de terreno realizada por su m¨¦dico de familia y anotada en la historia cl¨ªnica individual del paciente, el cual fue intervenido quir¨²rgicamente y con ¨¦xito en el Servicio de Coloproctolog¨ªa del Hospital General Docente "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" de Santiago de Cuba en enero de 2010, cuando se efectu¨® la ex¨¦resis total del tumor sin lesionar el recto. A case report of an elderly man with a giant pilonidal cyst, whose primary data was obtained through a medical visit carried out by the physician of the doctor's office where he belongs and written down in his medical record, is described. This patient was surgically treated with success at the Coloproctology Service from "Dr Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba on January, 2010 when total tumor exeresis was carried out without injuring the rectum. %K anciano %K quiste pilonidal gigante %K ex¨¦resis quir¨²rgica del tumor %K elderly %K giant pilonidal cyst %K surgical tumor exeresis %U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1029-30192011000900014