TY - JOUR
T1 - Techniques for optimizing surgical scars, part 1
T2 - Wound healing and depressed/atrophic scars
AU - Konda, Sailesh
AU - Potter, Kathryn
AU - Ren, Vicky Zhen
AU - Wang, Apphia Lihan
AU - Srinivasan, Aditya
AU - Chilukuri, Suneel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Pulse Marketing & Communications, LLC.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - Surgical management of benign or malignant cutaneous tumors may result in noticeable scars that are of great concern to patients, regardless of sex, age, or ethnicity. Techniques to optimize surgical scars are discussed in this three-part review. In part 1, an overview of the importance of preoperative planning, intraoperative technique, and pathophysiology of wound healing is followed by a discussion of scar revision options for depressed/atrophic scars. Scar revision options for these scars include dermabrasion, needling and subcision, punch excision and grafts, fillers, nonablative fractional lasers, ablative and fractional ablative lasers, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP). This review examines the scar revision outcomes for each technique, discusses potential adverse effects, and highlights the importance of further studies to optimize postsurgical scar revision.
AB - Surgical management of benign or malignant cutaneous tumors may result in noticeable scars that are of great concern to patients, regardless of sex, age, or ethnicity. Techniques to optimize surgical scars are discussed in this three-part review. In part 1, an overview of the importance of preoperative planning, intraoperative technique, and pathophysiology of wound healing is followed by a discussion of scar revision options for depressed/atrophic scars. Scar revision options for these scars include dermabrasion, needling and subcision, punch excision and grafts, fillers, nonablative fractional lasers, ablative and fractional ablative lasers, and platelet-rich plasma (PRP). This review examines the scar revision outcomes for each technique, discusses potential adverse effects, and highlights the importance of further studies to optimize postsurgical scar revision.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 28859737
AN - SCOPUS:85047224586
SN - 1540-9740
VL - 15
SP - 271
EP - 276
JO - SKINmed
JF - SKINmed
IS - 4
ER -