Resumen de Prevention of Scar Spread on Trunk ExcisionsA Rater-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

Kevin F. Kia, Molly V. Burns, Travis Vandergriff, Sarah Weitzul

• Importance Wounds that heal under tension lead to wider and more conspicuous scars and result in decreased long-term patient satisfaction. We hypothesized that prolonged intradermal suture lifetime can decrease scar spread in wounds under tension.

  Objective To determine whether prolonged intradermal support would help decrease scar spread.

  Design Prospective, randomized, controlled, rater-blinded, split-scar trial.

  Setting Outpatient dermatology clinic at Dallas Veterans Affairs Hospital, Dallas, Texas.

  Patients Patients presenting with skin cancer on the trunk were considered for the trial. We included 25 distinct surgical sites on a total of 22 patients.