Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Dermatology. 2011;222(3):282-4. doi: 10.1159/000327923. Epub 2011 May 26.
About 90% of patients with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) are smokers. A crucial eliciting role of smoking appears to be certain. In order to increase the awareness of this avoidable major cause of the disease and to facilitate the recognition of incipient disorder, we propose the more specific term 'smoker's boils' for HS lesions of patients who are smokers.
Clinical pictures of early lesions are presented. For the exceptional cases occurring in nonsmokers, the traditional name HS, representing an umbrella term, is adequate.
RESULT/CONCLUSION: The renaming of HS as smoker's boils has the practical advantage that a correct diagnosis can be made at an incipient stage of the disorder. If patients stop smoking at such an early stage of HS, they most likely have a chance that this devastating disease will not progress.
大约 90%的化脓性汗腺炎（HS）患者是吸烟者。吸烟似乎起着关键的诱发作用。为了提高对这种可避免的主要疾病病因的认识，并促进对初期疾病的识别，我们建议将吸烟者的疖子这一术语用于患有 HS 的吸烟者的皮损。
展示了早期皮损的临床图片。对于非吸烟者中罕见的病例，传统的术语 HS（代表一个伞状术语）是合适的。
结果/结论：将 HS 重新命名为吸烟者的疖子具有实际优势，因为可以在疾病的初期阶段做出正确的诊断。如果患者在 HS 的早期阶段戒烟，他们很有可能有机会阻止这种破坏性疾病的进展。
