How to assess scar hypertrophy - A comparison of subjective scales and Spectrocutometry: A new objective method

Wound Repair and Regeneration

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 316-323

  Kaartinen, Ilkka S ^a   Välisuo, Petri O ^b   Bochko, Vladimir ^b   Alander, Jarmo T ^b   Kuokkanen, Hannu O ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MELANIN;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOCUMENTATION; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MELANOMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SPECTROCUTOMETRY; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; CICATRIX; CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 79955714254     PISSN: 10671927     EISSN: 1524475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-475X.2011.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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