NCT00970671

Treatment of Surgical Scars Using the Pulsed Dye Laser

Treatment of Surgical Scars With the 595nm Pulsed Dye Laser Using Purpuric and Nonpurpuric Parameters: A Comparative Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Diego · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment of fresh surgical scars with a pulsed dye laser using purpura-inducing settings will improve clinical appearance better than one using non-purpura-inducing settings or no treatment.

Conditions

• Scar
• Laser Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Laser treatment with Purpuric settings	Pulsed dye laser treatment at purpuric settings with pulse duration of 1.5msec.
OTHER	Laser treatment with Nonpurpuric settings	Pulsed dye laser treatment with nonpurpuric settings with pulse duration 10msec.
OTHER	No treatment	No laser treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2009-09-02
• Last updated: 2012-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States