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Updates in Fetal Wound Healing and Scar Prevention

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Periocular scarring can result in devastating clinical consequences including but not limited to disfigurement, amblyogenic ptosis, and visually threatening eyelid retraction. Understanding the principles of wound healing is important to prevent or reduce these devastating consequences and their psychosocial repercussions. In this chapter, we will review the basic principle of wound healing from the initial time of tissue injury and through the latest stages of scar remodeling. We will also review newer clinical and experimental modalities employed to date for the treatment or prevention of scar formation.

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  1. Pediatric Ophthalmology, Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery, Ophthalmology Division, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Lama Khatib

  2. Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery and Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Darrell L. Cass

  3. Texas Children’s Fetal Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Darrell L. Cass

  4. Department of Pediatric Surgery, The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    N. Scott Adzick

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Khatib, L., Cass, D.L., Adzick, N.S. (2018). Updates in Fetal Wound Healing and Scar Prevention. In: Katowitz, J., Katowitz, W. (eds) Pediatric Oculoplastic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60814-3_3

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