Effect of different degrees of wound eversion sutures on scar formation at donor site of anterolateral thigh flaps: A prospective randomized controlled study

To investigate the effect of different degrees of wound eversion on scar formation at the donor site of anterolateral thigh flaps by a prospective clinical randomized controlled study. According to the degree of wound eversion, the clinical trial was designed with groups of non-eversion (group A), eversion of 0.5 cm (group B), and eversion of 1.0 cm (group C). Patients who underwent anterolateral femoral flap transplantation between September 2021 and March 2023 were collected as study subjects, and a total of 36 patients were included according to the selection criteria. After resected the anterolateral thigh flaps during operation, the wound at donor site of each patient was divided into two equal incisions, and the random number table method was used to group them ( =24) and perform corresponding treatments. Thirty of these patients completed follow-up and were included in the final study (group A =18, group B =23, and group C =29). There were 26 males and 4 females with a median age of 53 years (range, 35