Cutting, faulty Images

Fig. 1: Hypertrophic scar not following the course of the skin relaxation lines (?RSTL?) with ?rope ladder phenomenon? in the region of the anterior shoulder in a 29-year-old man.

Fig. 2 a: Post-traumatic,incorrectly treated and chronically infected scar on the lower lip of a 21-year-old man.

Fig. 2 b: Condition after wedge excision of the shrunken scar and layered wound closure.

Incision, faulty. Fig. 3: Condition after removal of a pigment cell nevus on the back of a 17-year-old man. Suture dehiscence after forced wound edge closure.

Fig. 4: ?rope ladder scar? after removal of the nevus at the shoulder in a 35-year-old woman.

Fig. 5: Scar contracture on the wrist after mesh graft covering a burn wound in a 21-year-old woman.

Fig. 6 a: Scar contracture after neck dissection due to a preauricular malignant melanoma in a 33-year-old man.

Fig. 6 b: Removal of scar contracture after multiple Z-plasties.

Fig. 7 a: Beginning scar contracture of the neck in a 40-year-old woman.

Fig. 7 b: Elimination of the disturbance by single-stage Z-plasty.

Fig. 8: Scar keloid after strumectomy in a 47-year-old woman.

Fig. 9: Course of the nerve branches of the facial nerve, zones of increased probability of deep infiltrations of malignant skin tumours.

Incision, faulty. fig. 10 a: Nodular, superficially slightly eroded tumor, interspersed with telangiectasia, on the nostril of a 73-year-old man. Sampling from the tumor revealed a basal cell carcinoma due to supposed (!) removal of the tumor in healthy individuals, planning of defect coverage with preauricular full-thickness skin graft.

Incision, faulty. Fig. 10 b: Three months postoperative recurrence in a full-thickness skin graft. A renewed, additionally microscopically controlled operation was wrongly omitted. Instead, radiation therapy was initiated.

Incision, faulty. fig. 10 c: After x-ray exposure initially without recurrence. nine years later the patient died of a massive tumor infiltration in the area of the base of the skull.