Evaluation of Purse-String Closure Vs Second Intention

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Conditions studied: Wound Closure Techniques

In brief

To compare healing time, scar size, aesthetic outcome, and complication rates following second intention healing or purse string closure of surgical wounds on the trunk or extremities. This study, will allow surgeons to make informed decisions on whether purse string closure is superior to that of second intention healing and thus worth considering or inferior and not worth performing.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02062866

Run by

University of California, Davis

People needed

50

Starts

2013-04-01

Expected to finish

2015-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Over 18 years of age
• Able to give informed consent themselves
• Willing to return for follow-up visits
• Post-operative defects greater than 8 mm (in greatest diameter or length of circular or oval geometric shape) on the trunk and extremities (including the shin, hands, and feet)

You may not qualify if…

• Mentally handicapped
• Unable to understand written and oral English
• Incarceration
• Under 18 years of age
• Unwilling to return for follow-up
• Pregnant women
• Wounds less than 8 mm in length
• Wounds on the head, neck or digits
• Patients in which primary linear closure is recommended

Where it is running

• University of California-Davis, Dept. of Dermatology — Sacramento, California, United States

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