From: Application and effect of tension-reducing suture in surgical treatment of hypertrophic scar
Conventional method | Combination method | ||||||
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Preoperation | Postoperation | Difference | Preoperation | Postoperation | Difference | p value | |
Pigmentation | 1.7 ± 0.7 | 1.0 ± 0.3 | 0.7 ± 0.5 | 1.8 ± 0.7 | 1.0 ± 0.2 | 0.8 ± 0.5 | 0.371 |
Vascularity | 1.9 ± 1.0 | 0.9 ± 0.4 | 1.0 ± 0.7 | 1.8 ± 0.9 | 0.7 ± 0.3 | 1.1 ± 0.6 | 0.488 |
Pliability | 1.7 ± 1.6 | 0.5 ± 0.5 | 1.2 ± 1.0 | 1.9 ± 1.5 | 0.4 ± 0.3 | 1.5 ± 1.0 | 0.181 |
Height | 1.5 ± 1.0 | 0.4 ± 0.5 | 1.1 ± 0.7 | 1.3 ± 0.9 | 0.2 ± 0.2 | 1.1 ± 0.5 | > 0.99 |
Total | 6.8 ± 3.5 | 2.8 ± 1.0 | 4.0 ± 1.2 | 6.6 ± 3.1 | 2.0 ± 0.7 | 4.6 ± 1.4 | 0.044∗ |