These results give support to the theory of excessive parasympathetic suppression in most cases of Ogilvie's syndrome. The treatment with intravenous neostigmine has proved very effective, preventing in many cases prolonged periods of uncomfortable and potentially hazardous conventional conservative management and avoiding surgical treatment in a consecutive series of patients.
Hidradenitis suppurativa or Verneuil's disease is usually a chronic, recurrent, suppurative and cicatricial disorder. It most often affects the skin of the axillae, groins and perineum, and less commonly the buttocks and upper thighs. A squamous cell carcinoma located in the hidradenitis-affected area is a rare complication. We present a review of the twenty-six published cases adding one of our own.
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