NCT02062866

Evaluation of Purse-String Closure Vs Second Intention

Intradermal Purse-String Closure Vs Second Intention Healing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Davis · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To compare healing time, scar size, aesthetic outcome, and complication rates following second intention healing or purse string closure of surgical wounds on the trunk or extremities. This study, will allow surgeons to make informed decisions on whether purse string closure is superior to that of second intention healing and thus worth considering or inferior and not worth performing.

Conditions

• Wound Closure Techniques

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Purse-String	The wound will be closed using one, long, continuous suture which will enter and exit run through the skin along the inner edge of the wound. The start and stopping point will be adjacent to one another. The suture will then be pulled" on either side to essentially cinch down the wound, decreasing the size of the wound.
PROCEDURE	Second Intent	The wound will not be sutured, and allowed to heal on its own.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-02-01
• Completion: 2015-02-01
• First posted: 2014-02-14
• Last updated: 2015-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States