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Relaxed Skin Tension LinesAka: Skin Tension Lines, Langer Lines, Langer's Lines, Cleavage Lines
- Indications
- Elective Incision or Biopsy
- Images
- Physiology
- Relaxed skin tension lines
- Skin tension lines followed during elective incision
- Offers best cosmetic result
- Most narrow and strongest scar line
- Parallel to dermal collagen bundles
- Perpendicular to muscle contraction
- Langer Lines
- Historically used to determine optimal incision line
- Based on biopsy procedures on cadavers
- Worse cosmetic result than with skin tension lines
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