Clinical Study
The Weather-Beaten Dorsal Hand Clinical Rating, Shadow Casting Optical Profilometry, and Skin Capacitance Mapping
Table 1
Subjective scoring scale of flaking skin*.
| Flake size | | 0: Dulled powdery appearance, no flakes visible | | 1: Very small but visible flakes | | 2: Intermediate sized flakes (at least two times size of I) | | 3: Large flakes with obvious curling edges | | Flake density | | 0: No flakes, powdery only | | 1: Sparsely distributed flakes (size I to 3) | | 2: Nonuniform covering of flakes | | 3: Flakes in close proximity, with uniform covering of flaking area | | Area of cover | | 0: No flaking | | 1: Less than one-third of swabbed area flaking | | 2: Once- to- two-thirds of swabbed area flaking | | 3: Over two-thirds of swabbed area flaking | |
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Flaking score = sum of scores of flake size, density, and area of cover. Possible scores: 0, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
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