2.9 Scar

Cicatrix.

Repair process of skin and/or subcutaneous tissue following injury.

Striae distensae (also known as stretch marks of pregnancy).

Depends on etiology.

Mucosa.

May develop into hypertrophic scar or keloid.

They are persistent.

Scars can be atrophic or hypertrophic.

Keloid is a scar, which proliferates beyond the bounds of the initial injury.

Spontaneous keloids develop without trauma.

Sclerosis is the result of spontaneous connective tissue proliferation (as in scleroderma).

Mucosa: Synechia or symblepharon.

Mutilation in dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.

Surgical scars.

Burn scars.

Healed venous leg ulcers.

Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa.

Final result after wound healing or deep cutaneous inflammation.