Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society
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Multicenter Study
Patient-reported scar quality of adults after burn injuries: A five-year multicenter follow-up study.
Scar formation is an important adverse consequence of burns. How patients appraise their scar quality is often studied shortly after sustaining the injury, but information in the long-term is scarce. Our aim was, therefore, to evaluate long-term patient-reported quality of burn scars. ⋯ In conclusion, this study provides new insights in long-term scar quality. Scars differed from normal skin in a large part of the burn population more than 5 years after burns, especially in those with severe burns. Female gender is associated with a poorer patients' overall opinion of their scar, which may be an indication of gender differences in perception of scar quality after burns.