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Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a skin disease that most commonly affects areas bearing apocrine sweat glands such as the underarms under the breasts inner thighs groin and buttocks.The non-contagious disease manifests as clusters of chronic abscesses epidermoid cysts sebaceous cysts pilonidal cyst or multilocalised infections which can be as large as tennis balls or as small as a pea. It can also start as a single abscess and once it pops can make tracts of many more abscesses.