A 46-year-old woman had a scar revision of her knee.The knee scar,before revision,was an 8-cm linear,thin scar that extended obliquely across the anterior portion of her knee.The tension of the scar tissue met resistance when she would bend her knee.The surgeon opted to remove the scar with a procedure to break up the linear scar and rearrange the tissue direction to form a natural line.The proper name of this tissue transfer scar revision is the:

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Z-plasty is the most widely used method of scar revision.It breaks up linear scars,rearranging them so that the central limb of the Z lies in the same direction as a natural skin line.Scars that are parallel to skin lines are less noticeable than scars that are perpendicular to skin lines.A contracted scar line can also be lengthened with a Z-plasty.

A 46-Year-Old Woman Had a Scar Revision of Her Knee