title: Soft tissue wounds and principles of healing.
abstract: Wound healing is a complex interchange, orchestrated between cellular components that play their respective parts signaled by and mediated by different cellular instruments of healing. When healing is performed well, the final product is a thing of beauty. When healing is delayed, interrupted, or excessive, then unsightly scars of chronic painful wounds that are frustrating to the patient and physician occur.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Scott and White Hospital, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, 2401 S. 31st Street, Temple, TX 76504, USA. mkmcgraw@swmail.sw.org
authors.forename: Margaret K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Strecker-McGraw
authors.forename: Thomas Russel
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Baer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012867:Skin / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology