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Clinical Trial Summary

Scar is an unpleasant symptom that commonly appear after orthopedic surgery, especially the joint procedure. Due to the wide motion range, skin around joint has excessive tension that may increase risk for wide or conspicuous scar formation of surgical wound. Noticeable scar can negatively impact the quality of life and psychosocial development. However, scar management is overlooked in early recovery period easily. Patients commonly start to turn their attention to the surgical scar after the completion of rehabilitation or the resolution of disease or unbearable symptom. It is always beyond the best period of scar treatment, 3 to 6 months after wound healing. This study is aimed to observe and evaluate the scar formation with or without aggressive management in pediatric population within 6 months after wound healing.


Clinical Trial Description

This is an observational, case-control study. Patients will be invited to participate and allocated to scar dressing group if they plan to use scar dressing. After gaining the written inform consent, participants will be asked to fulfill the patient diary, including the record of scar dressing use, patient scar assessment scale and satisfaction assessment, with parents' help. In regular group, patients are retrospectively selected by matched factors, such as demographics data. Scar-related data, including scar pictures, vancouver scar scale assessment and complication, are collected from medical history in both groups. ;


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NCT number NCT04928443
Study type Observational
Source Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Contact Chia-Hsieh Chang, Prof.
Phone 886-33281200
Email chiahchang@gmail.com
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase
Start date August 15, 2021
Completion date June 20, 2022

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