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![Prevention of hyper- and hypotrophic scars through surgical incisions in the direction of the “main folding lines” of the skin](https://image.oaes.cc/fbcc5024-8818-4996-9f7a-675c2eb3b6d1/3569.fig.2.jpg)
Figure 2. As early as 1892, Kocher recommended “Langer’s cleavage lines” for all surgical excisions and incisions (A); especially on extremities of children and adolescents, the lengthwise running scars often become hypertrophic (B) (both figures are reproduced with permission from Lemperle et al.[11])