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Table 3 Incidence of HTS by skin type and healing before/after 21 days

From: A prospective study of time to healing and hypertrophic scarring in paediatric burns: every day counts

Time to healing (days)

Type 1 (n = 40)

Type 2 (n = 104)

Type 3 (n = 61)

Type 4 (n = 106)

Type 5 (n = 36)

Type 6 (n = 36)

Overall (n = 383)

<21

1/34 (2.9%)

8/86 (9.3%)

2/48 (4.2%)

11/85 (12.9%)

3/32 (9.4%)

0/23 (0%)

25/308 (8.1%)

>21

2/6 (33.3%)

8/18 (44.4%)

7/13 (53.8%)

15/21 (71.4%)

3/4 (75%)

7/13 (53.8%)

42/75 (56.0%)