II. Indications
- Elective Incision or Biopsy
III. Images
IV. Physiology
- Relaxed Skin Tension Lines
- Skin Tension Lines followed during elective incision
- Offers best cosmetic result
- Most narrow and strongest scar line
- Parallel to dermal collagen bundles
- Perpendicular to Muscle Contraction
- Skin Tension Lines followed during elective incision
- Langer Lines
- Historically used to determine optimal incision line
- Based on biopsy procedures on cadavers
- Worse cosmetic result than with Skin Tension Lines
