title: Digital photography and transparency-based methods for measuring wound surface area.
abstract: To compare and determine a credible method of measurement of wound surface area by linear, transparency, and photographic methods for monitoring progress of wound healing accurately and ascertaining whether these methods are significantly different. From April 2005 to December 2006, 40 patients (30 men, 5 women, 5 children) admitted to the surgical ward of Shree Sayaji General Hospital, Baroda, had clean as well as infected wound following trauma, debridement, pressure sore, venous ulcer, and incision and drainage. Wound surface areas were measured by these three methods (linear, transparency, and photographic methods) simultaneously on alternate days. The linear method is statistically and significantly different from transparency and photographic methods (P value <0.05), but there is no significant difference between transparency and photographic methods (P value >0.05). Photographic and transparency methods provided measurements of wound surface area with equivalent result and there was no statistically significant difference between these two methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Government Medical College & Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat 390001 India.
authors.forename: Amul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhedi
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Government Medical College & Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat 390001 India.
authors.forename: Atul K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Saxena
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Government Medical College & Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat 390001 India.
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gadani
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Government Medical College & Sir Sayajirao General Hospital, Baroda, Gujarat 390001 India.
authors.forename: Ritesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Patel
keywords: Linear method; Photographic method; Transparency method