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.