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Title: | Visual Impact of Large and Giant Congenital Naevi: Comparison of Surgical Scars with Naevi Before Surgery |
Author: | Bauer, Bruce Sampogna, Francesca González-Concepción, Melinda Pascini-Garrigós, Mirella Calbet-Llopart, Neus, Hay, Jennifer L. Puig i Sardà, Susana Malvehy, J. (Josep) Marghoob, Ashfaq A. Carrera, Cristina |
Keywords: | Melanoma Infants Cicatrius Cirurgia dermatològica Melanoma Children Scars Dermatologic surgery |
Issue Date: | 6-May-2021 |
Publisher: | Society for the Publication of Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
Abstract: | Surgical attempts to remove large/giant congenital melanocytic naevi (LGCMN) are supported mainly by the theoretical improvement in patients’ self-image; however such surgery can result in unaesthetic scarring. We hypothesize that difference in appearance itself has an impact, and hence surgery cannot negate this impact. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore how LGCMN and scarring are perceived by non-affected people. We surveyed the visual impact on 1,015 health and non-health professionals working in a university hospital. Participants were assigned to 1 of 3 surveys, which, based on photographs of children: (i) assessed the visual impact of LGCMN; (ii) the visual impact of scarring; (iii) compared the impact of LGCMN and scarring. Feelings and perceptions evoked by images of children, either with LGCMN or with scarring, were remarkably similar. However, when the images of the same child (with LGCMN or scarring) were shown together, respondents showed significantly increased preference for scarring. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-3826 |
It is part of: | Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2021, vol. 101, num.6 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/209504 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-3826 |
ISSN: | 0001-5555 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina) |
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