Chapter 15: Other Dermatologic Conditions

Scars

Conventional wound healing occurs in three phases: inflammatory, proliferative, and remodeling. The inflammatory phase controls the injury and prevents infection. In the proliferative phase there is formation of granulation tissue. Remodelling is the longest phase, lasting up to years, in which the scar matures 

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