title: A novel and accurate technique of photographic wound measurement.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Wound measurement is an important aspect of wound management. Though there are many techniques to measure wounds, most of them are either cumbersome or too expensive.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To introduce a simple and accurate technique by which wounds can be accurately measured.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a comparative study of 10 patients whose wounds were measured by three techniques, i.e. ruler, graph and our technique.
  
  
  METHODS
  The graph method was taken as the control measurement. The extent of deviation in wound measurements with our method was compared with the standard technique. The statistical analysis used was ANOVA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The ruler method was highly inaccurate and overestimated the wound size by nearly 50%. Our technique remained consistent and accurate with the percentage of over or underestimation being 2-4% in comparison with the graph method.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This technique is simple and accurate and is an inexpensive and non-invasive method to accurately measure wounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Rahul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shetty
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sreekar
authors.forename: Shashank
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lamba
authors.forename: Ashish Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gupta