title: [Bases and methods of suturing].
abstract: If pharmaceutic modulation of scar formation does not improve the quality of the healing process over conventional healing, the surgeon must rely on personal skill and experience. Therefore a profound knowledge of wound healing based on experimental and clinical studies supplemented by postsurgical means of scar management and basic techniques of planning incisions, careful tissue handling, and thorough knowledge of suturing remain the most important ways to avoid abnormal scarring. This review summarizes the current experimental and clinical bases of surgical scar management.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Plastische, Hand- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 3, 30625 Hannover, Deutschland. vogt.peter@mh-hannover.de
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Vogt
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Altintas
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Radtke
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meyer-Marcotty
mesh_terms: D002921:Cicatrix / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000601:surgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012086:Reoperation; D013536:Suture Techniques; D013537:Sutures; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology