Regenerative medicine: a surgeon's perspective.
J Pediatr Surg
; 45(1): 11-7; discussion 17-8, 2010 Jan.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20105574
ABSTRACT
More than 200 million incisions are made in the world each year on children and adults. They all end up with a scar unless there is an unusual situation where we are operating on an early gestation fetus. The question is, "why do we not regenerate?" and "why do we always heal with either a 'normal amount of scarring' or, approximately 15% of the time, with a pathologic amount of scarring (hypertrophic scar or keloid)?"
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Surgery, Plastic
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Wound Healing
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Cicatrix
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Regenerative Medicine
Limits:
Adult
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Animals
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Language:
En
Journal:
J Pediatr Surg
Year:
2010
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States