• Wouter Peeters, Mieke Anthonissen, An Deliaert, Rene Van der Hulst, and Eric Van den Kerckhove.
• Department of Plastic Surgery, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. peeters.wouter@telenet.be
• Skin Res Technol. 2012 May 1; 18 (2): 188-91.

BackgroundThis cross-sectional pilot-study investigated the reproducibility of the LDI (Moor-LDI-B2; Moor Instruments) and the chromameter (Minolta chromameter CR-300) when used in scar assessment.MethodsTwenty-seven scars in 14 subjects were included between January and June 2003. One observer performed two times both measurements with 10 min apart. The intra-observer agreement is quantified by means of the intra-class correlations (ICC) and the standard errors of measurement (SEM) for both the LDI and the chromameter.ResultsIgnoring one outlier, the ICC of the LDI = 0.856 and the SEM = 34.56. The chromameter shows a better reproducibility with an ICC of 0.93 and a SEM of 0.79.ConclusionThis pilot-study with a limited number of measurements shows a moderate reproducibility of the LDI compared to the chromameter measurements, in the assessment of respectively flux and redness in scars.© 2011 John Wiley & Sons A/S.

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