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|Articles|July 22, 2010

Today's Daily Dose: Wound management

An important pointer on making skin incisions.

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“When making skin incisions or excising masses or wounds, always orient the long axis of the incision or ellipse along (i.e. parallele to) the line of skin tension.”

-Giselle Hosgood, DVM, BVSc, MS, PhD, FACVSc, DACVS

From Practical Matters: Find the direction of skin tension when making skin incisions

 

 


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