Dermal tunneling: a proposed treatment for depressed scars.
Depressed facial scars are still a challenge in medical literature, despite the wide range of proposed treatments. Subcision is a technique that is frequently performed to improve this type of lesions. This article proposes a new method to release depressed scars, reported and named by the author as dermal tunneling. This study presents a simple and didactic manner to perform this method. The results in 17 patients with facial scars were considered promising. Thus, the technique was deemed to be safe and reproducible.
Recife Santa Casa de Misericórdia Hospital, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Emerson Vasconcelos de Andrade
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Lima
D000152:Acne Vulgaris / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000601:surgery*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008488:Medical Illustration; D008875:Middle Aged; D009339:Needles; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult