Botox in the Healing of Surgical Wounds of the Neck

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2015-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that Botox A will reduce scarring and improve healing of surgical neck wounds.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Nova Scotia Health Authority
• Collaborator: Allergan
• Treatments: abobotulinumtoxinA; Botulinum Toxins; Botulinum Toxins, Type A; incobotulinumtoxinA; onabotulinumtoxinA; Polystyrene sulfonic acid

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• all patients referred to the ENT clinic for a thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients with missing information, including demographic information

• patients lost to follow up or have been followed for less than 6 months

• patients with known allergy to lidocaine

• patients in whom botox would be contraindicated in:

• known history of neuromuscular disorders (myasthenia gravis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Eaton-Lambert syndrome)

• pregnant women

• known allergy to botox, albumin