Table 1 The Vancouver Scar Scale
From: Chinese expert consensus on clinical prevention and treatment of scar+
Variables | Contents | Scores |
|---|---|---|
Pigmentation | Normal—color that closely resembles the color over the rest of one’s body | 0 |
Hypopigmentation | 1 | |
Mixed pigmentation | 2 | |
Hyperpigmentation | 3 | |
Thickness | Normal | 0 |
< 1 mm | 1 | |
≥ 1 mm and ≤ 3mm | 2 | |
>3 mm and ≤ 4 mm | 3 | |
> 4 mm | 4 | |
Vascularity | Normal—color that closely resembles the color over the rest of one’s body | 0 |
Pink | 1 | |
Red | 2 | |
Purple | 3 | |
Pliability | Normal | 0 |
Supple (flexible with minimal resistance) | 1 | |
Yielding (giving way to pressure) | 2 | |
Firm (solid, inflexible, not easily moved, resistant to manual pressure) | 3 | |
Banding (rope-like tissue that blanches with extension of scar) | 4 | |
Contracture (permanent shortening of scar producing deformity or distortion) | 5 |