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Prevention of hyper- and hypotrophic scars through surgical incisions in the direction of the “main folding lines” of the skin

Figure 20. In children and adolescents, open heart surgery may cause severe hypertrophic scarring, which could be avoided by a “clamshell-incision” (A and B) (Figure 20B is reproduced with permission from Lemperle et al.[11])

Plastic and Aesthetic Research
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