Daily Observations During Healing of a Full‐Thickness Human Surgical Wound by Second Intention
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology
- Vol. 17 (12) , 933-935
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1524-4725.1991.tb01692.x
Abstract
After his preauricular basal cell carcinoma had been excised by Mohs micrographic surgery, a patient took daily photographs of his 6 × 3-cm full-thickness wound as it healed by second intention over the next 44 days. Wound contraction produced a linear decrease in wound area between postoperative days 3 and 40 that accounted for 57% of the area of the original wound. The remainder of the wound was resurfaced by new epithelium, beginning on day 16. Few comparable reports address the contributions of contraction and re-epithelialization in large full-thickness human wounds.Keywords
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