Laser therapy in the treatment of cicatricial ectropion
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Abstract
Abstract Introduction The objective of this study was to investigate the clinical effects of laser therapy in treating cicatricial ectropion. Methods Seven patients with cicatricial ectropion were entered into this clinical study. The ectropions were pretreated with the 595‐nm pulsed dye laser if the scar color was red. If there was no red, the UltraPulse fractional CO 2 laser was used and parameters were adapted according to the height of scar. MEBT/MEBO was used after laser treatment for wound healing. The degree of ectropion was measured for changes before and after treatment, and the scars were evaluated for changes in melanin, height, vascularity, and pliability using the Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS) before and after treatment. Results All seven patients with cicatricial ectropion entered into this protocol were completely corrected after 1‐2 treatment sessions. The total VSS score, as well as the score for melanin and pliability in 7 patients, showed a decrease following the treatments, and this was statistically significant ( P < 0.05). The scores for height and vascularity showed a decrease following the treatments, but there was no significant difference by statistical analysis ( P ≥ 0.05). There were no adverse reactions reported. Conclusions The treatment of cicatricial ectropion with laser therapy can not only correct the ectropion, but also improve the scars in the treatment area. Compared with the traditional repair of cicatricial ectropion, the use of fractional CO 2 laser provides surgical precision and the advantage of a timely treatment without the need to wait for the scar to stabilize.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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