Adhesive Strips in Dermatologic Surgery: Is Cosmetic Appearance Improved?

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Subjects Undergoing Surgical Procedure of the Skin
• Interventions: Procedure: Suture with Adhesive Stripping; Procedure: Suture without Adhesive Stripping

• Registration Number: NCT01979497
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Davis

Brief Summary

To determine whether the addition of adhesive stripping to a wound closed with dermal sutures improves outcome of wound closure. We hypothesize that the combination of adhesive strips to a wound closed with dermal sutures does not add significant cosmetic improvement of the resultant scar.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-08
• Study First Submitted: 2013-11-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-11-01
• Study First Posted: 2013-11-08
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2014-06
• Status Verified: 2015-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-04-15
• Last Update Posted: 2015-04-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 39

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• Able to give informed consent themselves
• Willing to return for follow up visit

Exclusion Criteria

• Mentally handicapped
• Unable to understand written and oral English
• Unwilling to return for follow up
• Wounds less than 3 cm in length
• Adults unable to consent
• Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers 17 and under)
• Pregnant women
• Prisoners

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Suture with Adhesive Stripping	Suture with Adhesive Stripping	Buried dissolving subcuticular sutures are sued for both sides of the wound to approximate wound edges and then steri-strips for the adhesive stripped half of the scar is applied.
Suture without Adhesive Stripping	Suture without Adhesive Stripping	Buried dissolving subcuticular sutures are sued for both sides of the wound to approximate wound edges and then no closure material for the half of the scar is applied.
Suture with Adhesive Stripping	Suture without Adhesive Stripping	Buried dissolving subcuticular sutures are sued for both sides of the wound to approximate wound edges and then steri-strips for the adhesive stripped half of the scar is applied.
Suture without Adhesive Stripping	Suture with Adhesive Stripping	Buried dissolving subcuticular sutures are sued for both sides of the wound to approximate wound edges and then no closure material for the half of the scar is applied.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Split-Scar Comparison	3 months	Split-scar comparison of half of the wound closed with buried subcuticular sutures and overlying adhesive strips and half the wound closed with buried subcuticular sutures alone.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of California-Davis, Department of Dermatology; 🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States