@article{Guarro_Cozzani_Rossini_Bonati_Del Rio_2021, title={Wounds morphologic assessment: application and reproducibility of a virtual measuring system, pilot study}, volume={92}, url={https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica/article/view/11179}, DOI={10.23750/abm.v92i5.11179}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background and Aims. </strong>Assessment of wounds morphology can be considered, in the everyday medical activity, the first step for the correct pathway of diagnosis. Authors present a pilot study focused on the statistical analysis of 32 cases of wounds measurements conducted by both the traditional method (paper ruler) both the digital smartphone analysis.</p> <p><strong>Materials and Methods.</strong>32 lesions were morphologically evaluated. All the enrolled patients were evaluated by both the traditional method (paper ruler) both a digital smartphone analysis based on the app imitoMeasure. The extracted data were compared to the traditional measurements and a statistical analysis was based on intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC).</p> <p><strong>Results. </strong>Three morphological parameters were evaluated: width (expressed in cm), length (expressed in cm) and area (expressed in cm<sup>2</sup>). The area (expressed in cm<sup>2</sup>) was found to be the less comparable, but the data were close in this case, too.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion.</strong>The present study shows that the digital measuring systems should be easily addressed as versatile tools that could be applied in daily clinical practice in the future.</p>}, number={5}, journal={Acta Biomedica Atenei Parmensis}, author={Guarro, Giuseppe and Cozzani, Federico and Rossini, Matteo and Bonati, Elena and Del Rio, Paolo}, year={2021}, month={Nov.}, pages={e2021227} }