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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.3.jpg)
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])