A Minimally Invasive Surgery for Axillary Osmidrosis: Combined Liposuction With Subcutaneous Pruning

Tang-Du Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Sweat Gland Diseases

Treatments: Procedure: minimally invasive surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01539460

TDH0369

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with axillary osmidrosis are treated with minimally invasive procedure combined tumescent liposuction with Subcutaneous Pruning. Effectiveness of this modified method in reducing odor is to be determined.

Full description

Patients with excessive malodor are recruited. They are surgically treated with minimally invasive procedure combined tumescent liposuction with Subcutaneous Pruning and followed up for 6-24 months to evaluate effectiveness sand side effect.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• unpleasant odor from the axillae
• Willing and able to appear for all scheduled, post-operative visits

Exclusion criteria

• under the age of 18
• have undergone a prior surgical intervention
• inappropriate candidates for surgery due to medical or mental health reasons
• elect not to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

minimally invasive surgery

Experimental group

Description:

There is only one arm to this study. All patients will receive treatment with the minimally invasive surgery for their axillary bromidrosis

Treatment:

Procedure: minimally invasive surgery