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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 27. Common vertical scar after knee surgery. The wide opening to the joint after a horizontal incision prevents this conspicuous vertical scar. A vertical cut in the hollow of the knee joint (for the removal of a Baker cyst) should be obsolete since all folds run horizontally (A and B) (Figure 27A is reproduced with permission from Lemperle et al.[11])

Plastic and Aesthetic Research
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