Study of the relationship between abdominal scars and subcutaneous blood vessels using photoacoustic imaging.
- Conditions
- A women who have a midline abdominal scar or no scar.
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000048980
- Lead Sponsor
- Departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University.
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Not provided
1)Pregnant or lactating women. 2)With cardiovascular disease. 3)Photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy. 4)A cardiac pacemaker in their body. 5)Severe systemic disease corresponding to ASA-PS (American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification) Class 4 or larger. 6)One of the following comorbid illnesses. Low back pain syndrome that makes it impossible to maintain the patient in the supine position during imaging. Pain or tenderness at the site of obvious skin ulceration, infection, or scarring at the site of evaluation. Neurological or orthopedic disease that makes it impossible to hold the standing, sitting, supine, or lateral positions. Post-artificial joint replacement. History of abdominal wall scar hernia or ileus. Conditions with a colostomy. Patients who have undergone multiple laparotomies. (except in cases where the attending physician has given permission for the patient to remain in the supine position during imaging.) Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version). 7)Difficult in communicating or body positioning during examinations. 8)Research subjects undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy for the primary disease.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the relationship between the presence or absence of midline abdominal scar and image characteristics and distributions of vessels in the abdomen.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Evaluate the relationship between construction of subcutaneous microvessels around the scar and years since abdominal surgery.