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Surgical Outcomes of Simple Interrupted Versus Running Epidermal Sutures in Full-thickness Skin Graft Placement

NCT06233812 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2024-01-31

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Summary

The study hypothesis is that the use of running epidermal sutures in full-thickness skin graft (FTSG) placement for patients undergoing dermatologic surgery (Mohs micrographic surgery or excision) is non-inferior to the use of simple interrupted sutures with respect to cosmetic outcome. This will be a split-scar (within-person) study, in which half of each participant's scar will receive the study intervention (running epidermal sutures), with the other half receiving the control intervention (simple interrupted sutures). The primary outcome, total observer score of the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS) 2.0, will be assessed by two blinded observers at a 3-month follow-up visit, and compared between scar halves.

Conditions

  • Skin Graft Scar

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Simple interrupted suturing technique

Both simple interrupted and running epidermal sutures are considered acceptable, appropriate techniques for FTSG placement. Therefore, this study would be important in determining whether running sutures, the more efficient method, are non-inferior to simple interrupted sutures.

PROCEDURE

Running suturing technique

Both simple interrupted and running epidermal sutures are considered acceptable, appropriate techniques for FTSG placement. Therefore, this study would be important in determining whether running sutures, the more efficient method, are non-inferior to simple interrupted sutures.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Northwell Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Victoria R Sharon, MD · Northwell Dermatology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-08-01
Primary Completion
2024-08-01
Completion
2024-08-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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