Plastic and cosmetic surgery

by Frederick Strange Kolle

Celsus Relieving Incisions.

In excisions in small rhomboidal form, the skin is merely dissected up and around the wound, the same as in [Fig. 45], and the wound is sutured in linear form, as shown in [Fig. 46].

Fig. 45.

Rhomboid Excision.

Fig. 46.

Union of Rhomboid Excision.

If the defect is oblong in form, the angles are brought together wholly, leaving a small surface to granulate, as in [Fig. 47], or they are drawn toward the center, leaving the remainder of the parallel lines to be sutured, as shown in [Fig. 48].