Colour evaluation in scars: Tristimulus colorimeter, narrow-band simple reflectance meter or subjective evaluation?

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 103-107

  Draaijers, Lieneke J ^a,b   Tempelman, Fenike R H ^a   Botman, Yvonne A M ^a   Kreis, Robert W ^a,b   Middelkoop, Esther ^a,c   Van Zuijlen, Paul P M ^a,d  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Dutch Burn Centres   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cicatrix; Classification; Colorimetry; Reproducibility of results; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OBSERVER VARIATION; PIGMENTATION; REFLECTOMETRY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCAR; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN EXAMINATION; SPECTROMETER; VALIDATION PROCESS; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 1042301034     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2003.09.029     Document Type: Article

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