Clinical applications of basic research that shows reducing skin tension could prevent and treat abnormal scarring: The importance of fascial/subcutaneous tensile reduction sutures and flap surgery for keloid and hypertrophic scar reconstruction

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 68-76

  Ogawa, Rei ^a   Akaishi, Satoshi ^a   Huang, Chenyu ^a   Dohi, Teruyuki ^a   Aoki, Masayo ^a   Omori, Yasutaka ^a   Koike, Sachiko ^a   Kobe, Kyoko ^a   Akimoto, Masataka ^a   Hyakusoku, Hiko ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypertrophic scar; Keloid; Mechanical force; Mechanotransduction; Tension

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUOROURACIL; GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; SILICONE GEL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANGIOGENESIS; BASIC RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRYOTHERAPY; FASCIAL TENSILE REDUCTION SUTURE; FIBROSIS; FLAP SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; JOINT CONTRACTURE; KELOID; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PERFORATOR FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TENSION; SUBCUTANEOUS TENSILE REDUCTION SUTURE; SUTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND; Z PLASTY;

CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FASCIA; HUMANS; KELOID; SKIN; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 79955373307     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.78.68     Document Type: Review

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