The technique of skin stretching for acute burn treatment and scar reconstruction: Clinical applications and working mechanisms. - The technique of skin stretching for burn and scar treatment

Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis0 sites60 target enrollmentStarted: TBDLast updated: May 13, 2024

Conditions

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•1. Acute Burn wounds or scar reconstructions that require surgical treatment;
•2. The defect is too large for direct closure by advancement of the adjacent skin in one operation by standard techniques;
•3. Sufficient healthy skin at (at least) one edge of the wound/scar must be available for the stretching procedure.

•1. language barrier;
•2. known history of keloid formation;
•3. systemic diseases: Diabetes Mellitus, immunodeficiency, arterial insufficiency;
•4. local or systemic application of corticosteroids;
•5. psychiatric diseases leading to study bias (e.g. automutulation);
•6. skin diseases that lead to collagen and/or elastin abnormalities such as Ehlers Danlos;
•7. radiated skin;
•8. wound located at extremities, exceeding >33% of circumference (acute burn category);
•9. scars requiring reconstructive surgery that are not suitable for serial excision
•10. wounds that can be closed by excision and primary closure (both categories) or by a local flap such as Z-plasty (scar reconstruction category);

Sponsor

Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis