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Free Skin Grafting to Reconstruct Donor Sites After Radial Forearm Flap Harvesting

NCT05137639 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2023-12-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Reconstruction of the donor site after radial forearm flap harvesting is a common procedure in maxillofacial plastic surgery. Unfortunately, free skin graft transplantation faces wound healing impairments such as necrosis, (partial) graft loss, or tendon exposure. Several studies have investigated methods to reduce these impairments and demonstrated improvements if the wound bed is optimized. However, these methods are device-dependent, expansive, and time-consuming. Therefore, the application of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) to the wound bed could be a simple, cost effective, and device-independent method to optimize wound-bed conditions instead. In this study, PRF membranes were applied between the wound bed and skin graft.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF)

PRF was only applied in the experimental arm to improve wound bed conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wuerzburg University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anton Straub, MD · Dep. of Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-01
Primary Completion
2021-09-30
Completion
2021-09-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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