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- Title
Skin Temperature during Cutaneous Wound Healing in an Equine Model of Cutaneous Fibroproliferative Disorder: Kinetics and Anatomic-Site Differences.
- Authors
Celeste, Christophe J.; Deschesne, Karine; Riley, Christopher B.; Theoret, Christine L.
- Abstract
Objective To map skin temperature kinetics, and by extension skin blood flow throughout normal or abnormal repair of full-thickness cutaneous wounds created on the horse body and limb, using infrared thermography. Study Design Experimental. Animals Standardbreds (n = 6), aged 3-4 years. Methods Three cutaneous wounds were created on the dorsolateral surface of each metacarpus and on the lateral thoracic wall. Thoracic skin wounds and those on 1 randomly chosen forelimb healed by second intention without a bandage, whereas contralateral limb wounds were bandaged to induce formation of exuberant granulation tissue ( EGT). Thermal data were collected from all planned wound sites before the surgical procedure (baseline), and at 24, 48, 96 hours, 1, 2, and 4 weeks after wounding. Data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA and a priori contrasts submitted to Bonferroni sequential correction. Level of significance was P < .05. Results Cutaneous wound temperature ( CWT) increased temporally from preoperative period to week 1 postwounding, independently of anatomic location ( P < .0001). CWT of limb wounds was significantly less than that of body wounds throughout healing ( P < .01). CWT of limb wounds managed with bandages and developing EGT was significantly less than that of unbandaged limb wounds, which did not develop EGT ( P ≤ .01). Conclusions CWT varied with anatomic location and throughout healing. CWT of wounds developing EGT was significantly less than that of wounds without EGT.
- Publication
Veterinary Surgery, 2013, Vol 42, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
0161-3499
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1532-950X.2012.00966.x