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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.23.jpg)
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)