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Excision of Strip of Deep Fascia to Reduce Seroma Formation and Extrusion of Tissue Expanders

NCT00968318 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2009-08-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Tissue expansion has enjoyed a wide range of applications since the technique was popularized in the latter quarter of the last century. During the expansion process, subcutaneous fat liquefies, skin becomes thinner, muscles atrophy, blood inflow increases, and lymphatics get occluded. All these factors predispose to seroma formation and implant extrusion.

A similar problem occurred with lymphoedema patients, and one of the lines of treatment was creation of a connection to the deep lymphatics to facilitate absorption of accumulated fluid. The same principle is to be extrapolated to patients having tissue expanders inserted in the neck and limbs and its effect is to be noted on the incidence of seroma .

Conditions

  • Seroma

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Excision of strip of deep fascia

operative technique to excise deep fascia.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Adel Wilson, MD · Cairo University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-05-31
Primary Completion
2008-09-30
Completion
2008-11-30

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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