Updated Scar Management Practical Guidelines: Non-invasive and invasive measures

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1017-1025

  Monstrey, Stan ^a   Middelkoop, Esther ^b   Vranckx, Jan Jeroen ^c   Bassetto, Franco ^d   Ziegler, Ulrich E ^e   Meaume, Sylvie ^f   Téot, Luc ^g  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery   (Germany)

^f HÔPITAL ROTHSCHILD   (France)

^g MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Guideline; Plastic surgeon; Scar; Silicone; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUOROURACIL; IMIQUIMOD; SILICONE GEL; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; VERAPAMIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ELECTRON THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; KELOID; MECHANICAL STRESS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OXYGEN TENSION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SKIN TENSION; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

GUIDELINE; PLASTIC SURGEON; SCAR; SILICONE; SURGERY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; COMPRESSION BANDAGES; CRYOTHERAPY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; KELOID; LASER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SILICONES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE EXPANSION;

EID: 84903732906     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: 18780539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2014.04.011     Document Type: Review

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