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. 2022 Jul 19;23:575. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06514-3

Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria

- Age ≥18 years

- Patient has an adherent scar (minimum scar age: 12 months) caused by burns, necrotic fasciitis, or degloving injury, for which fat grafting is indicated

- Competent adults

- Patients seen by a plastic surgeon in Burn centers of the Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk or Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

- Previous scar treatment with fat grafting in selected scar

- General exclusion criteria for fat grafting procedure: pregnancy, lactating, BMI < 18 kg/m2

- Skin melanoma in patient’s history

- Unwillingness to commit to the study protocol and show up for all follow-up moments

- Insufficient proficiency in Dutch to the extent that clear communication is not possible