Cosmetic Outcomes of Umbilical Hernia Incisions (UHR)

Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Status: Completed

Conditions: Umbilical Hernia

Treatments: Procedure: Infra-umbilical incision; Procedure: Transumbilical incision

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06738121

STUDY00003347

Details and patient eligibility

About

This will be a single institution, prospective, randomized controlled trial. Patients presenting as an outpatient for repair of umbilical hernias who meet our inclusion criteria, whose parents provide permission to participate in the study, will receive the umbilical hernia repair that they are randomized to. The appropriate data will be collected on day of surgery, and patients will be followed with a delayed parental submission of incisional photograph.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 9 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient presenting with umbilical hernia that is <1.5cm in size based on physical exam for outpatient repair
• Treated at CMH Adele Hall or CMHK from 09/11/24 - 09/11/25
• Subjects <10 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Umbilical hernia > 1.5 cm in size
• Patients with prior umbilical surgery
• Subjects ≥10 years of age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2 participants in 2 patient groups

Traditional Infra-umbilical incision

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients randomized to this arm with have the traditional curvilinear infra-umbilical incision

Treatment:

Procedure: Infra-umbilical incision

Vertical Trans-umbilical Incision

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in this arm will have the cranio-caudal vertical incision right through the umbilicus for the repair of the umbilical hernia

Treatment:

Procedure: Transumbilical incision