Botulinum toxin type A: implications in wound healing, facial cutaneous scarring, and cleft lip repair
Botulinum toxin is a neurotoxin that has been utilized to induce chemo-denervation of muscles. Cutaneous wounds represent a special situation in which the tensile forces applied by these muscles on wound edges might have deleterious effects on the healing process. The aim of this review was to inves...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
2013-09-01
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Series: | Annals of Saudi Medicine |
Online Access: | https://www.annsaudimed.net/doi/full/10.5144/0256-4947.2013.482 |