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The aim of this study was to compare between the conventional palpation method of botulinum toxin type A injection and the electromyography-guided method using clinical parameters and electromyography analysis.


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The study was conducted on 15 healthy-looking female subjects with visible glabellar rhytids when frowning. All participants were recruited from the outpatient clinic of Dermatology Department, Main University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University. The mean age was 46.27 ± 6.31 with a range from 33 to 59 years. All 15 subjects completed the study. Each subject provided a right and left corrugator supercilii muscles to the study. Each muscle was divided into a body and a tail, each part injected separately (n=60). Neurotoxin injection into the corrugator body and tail by palpation method on one side and under EMG-guidance on the other. Photographs were taken both at rest, and while frowning at each visit: pre-operatively, after 2 weeks and after 3 months. Clinical grading according to static and dynamic Merz glabellar frown line scales and EMG analysis was done at each visit: pre-operatively, after 2 weeks and after 3 months. ;


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NCT number NCT05517538
Study type Interventional
Source Alexandria University
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date August 9, 2021
Completion date December 15, 2021

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