ArticleAnnals of burns and fire disasters2018
Electrophotobiomodulation in the treatment of facial post-burn hypertrophic scars in pediatric patients.
Article in Annals of burns and fire disasters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of procedural treatments for burn scars in children: Evaluating efficacy, safety, standard protocols, average sessions and tolerability based on clinical studies.International wound journal · 2024Pooled it
- Evaluation of electrophotobiomodulation as a recent tool in the armamentarium of treatment of fingertip injuries.BMC surgery · 2024Trial
- Laser, Intense Pulsed Light, and Radiofrequency for the Treatment of Burn Scarring: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.European burn journal · 2023Review
- [Effects of mechanical tension on the formation of hypertrophic scars in rabbit ears and transforming growth factor-βZhonghua shao shang yu chuang mian xiu fu za zhi · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Hypertrophic scar continues to be one of the leading reasons for surgical and non-surgical treatments after burn healing. Facial post-burn hypertrophic scars can cause severe functional and emotional disability, as they are usually difficult to conceal. Numerous nonsurgical and surgical therapies have been used for the treatment of hypertrophic scars. This study describes the combination of bipolar radiofrequency, intense pulsed light and cooling (given the collective term 'E-light'), and reports the outcomes of its use in the treatment of post-burn facial hypertrophic scars in a series of sixty-five patients in the pediatric age group. There were no reports in the literature of the use of this modality (E-light) in the treatment of facial post-burn hypertrophic scars in pediatric patients. Results showed that the mean decrease in total VSS score for all patients was 5.8. Regarding the satisfaction of the parents of our patients, 66.15% rated the result excellent, 24.61% rated it good and 9.23% rated it fair. We received no poor ratings for the final result, with a significant reduction in total Vancouver scar scale after treatment (P-value = 0.000). The E-light therapy technique studied in this work is effective, safe and economical if compared to other treatment modalities that can be used in the management of facial post-burn hypertrophic scars.
Indexed as
Identifiers
30374265PMC6199016W3024659104What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.