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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 3. Pinkus’ “main folding lines” (MFL) of the skin facilitate optimal incision lines. These drawings, however, are irritating to a surgeon because they are not clearly defined at the extremities (A); a drawing of collected striae gravidarum by Pinkus in 1927 (B) (both figures are reproduced with permission from Lemperle et al.[11])

Plastic and Aesthetic Research
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