Relaxed Skin Tension Lines, Skin Tension Lines, Langer Lines, Langer's Lines, Cleavage Lines
- Indications
- Elective Incision or Biopsy
- Images
- Physiology
- Relaxed Skin Tension Lines
- Skin Tension Lines followed during elective incision
- Offers best cosmetic result
- Most narrow and strongest scar line
- Parallel to dermal Collagen bundles
- Perpendicular to Muscle Contraction
- Skin Tension Lines followed during elective incision
- Langer Lines
- Historically used to determine optimal incision line
- Based on biopsy procedures on cadavers
- Worse cosmetic result than with Skin Tension Lines