Hypertrophic Scar Improvement by Early Intervention With Ablative Fractional Carbon Dioxide Laser Treatment.

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine
Jianglin TanGaoxing Luo

Abstract

Ablative fractional laser treatment has been used to improve the color and texture of hypertrophic scars with safe and effective results. However, no consensus on the optimal time to initiate fractional laser treatment is available. The effect on early-stage scars remains controversial. This study was designed to assess the efficacy and safety of ablative fractional carbon dioxide (CO2 ) laser treatments for hypertrophic burn scars and to analyze the efficacy and safety in the early period within 3 months after injury. We performed a retrospective study of 221 hypertrophic scar patients. According to the time of the first laser treatment after injury, patients were divided into five subgroups, including less than 1 month, 1-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, and more than 12 months postinjury. One month after the last laser treatment, the scars were assessed by photography, the Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS), durometry, and spectrocolorimetry. The patients included 118 males and 103 females. The average age was 33.6 years. Fire/flame was the primary injury source. Thirty-six percent of the patients underwent at least one fractional CO2 laser treatment. All the included patients, including those treated within 1 month after injury, ...Continue Reading

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