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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 23. Most abdominal incisions are still perpendicular to the main folding lines, even if some surgeons are using wide horizontal incisions in patients with acute abdominal pain (from iknowledge: R.E. D’Souza and R. Novell: Pancreatectomy and Whipple 2015) (A and B)

Plastic and Aesthetic Research
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