Investigating the Effects of Orienting Skin Grafts Parallel to Skin Tension Lines on Quality of Life in Head and Neck Located Basal Cell Carcinoma

Sifa Okulu - Independent Research Center of Dermatology and Venereology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Grafting; Basal Cell Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06894056

KAEK258

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to learn about the effect of orienting graft for treatment of skin cancer in patients who undergo skin cancer excision and grafting for their skin cancer. The main question to answer is

Does orienting the grafts parallel with skin tension lines have any effect on quality of life or cosmetic results?

Participants who already underwent or planned to undergo an excision and grafting procedure will answer a qaulity of life tool and cosmetic results will be evaluated by two seperate dermatologist.

Enrollment: 71 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with nodular basal cell carcinomas with a tumor size equal or less than 12 millimeters
• A history of surgical excision and grafting

Exclusion criteria

• Immunosuppressed patients
• Recurrent tumors
• Patients with BCC's that arose from the previously irradiated area
• Gorlin's Syndrome diagnosis
• Illiterate individuals
• İmpaired cognitive functions

Trial design

71 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1

Description:

Control patients were selected either from patients with head and neck located BCC's who were treated with excision with grafting harvested from clavicular region with no specific attention in terms of orientation of skin tension lines

Group 2

Description:

Group two was selected from patients with BCC located at head and neck and who underwent a grafting method. A skin tension lines oriented approach was applied and grafts were harvested from a color matched cosmetic area in these patients.