Yang J Y
Linkou Burn Center, Department of Plastic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 1996 Dec;98(7):1200-5; discussion 1206-7. doi: 10.1097/00006534-199612000-00011.
Scar revision is almost a daily work of plastic surgeons, but sometimes it is a challenge to them. Persistent hypertrophic scar in the perioral area is very difficult to treat because of its anatomic location. Many methods of scar removal, including simple scar revision, Z- or W-plasty, V-Y or Y-V flap, local cutaneous flaps, etc., may not be suitable to remove the perioral scar. The specially designed intrascar excision technique is a good method to solve this problem. The long-term follow-up, up to 5 years, in this clinical series revealed that this method does not distort the perioral anatomy and produces satisfactory aesthetic results.
