Wound Healing

Abstract

INITIATED by Virchow's studies in cellular pathology, modern knowledge of the microscopical sequences of injury and healing was well established by the close of the last century. Increasing reliance for its understanding, however, is placed upon the biologic behavior of ions and molecules. Implemented by the technical advances of recent years, attacks on the problems of wound healing have multiplied, and their implications have broadened to include repair set in motion by injury of almost any kind and tissue loss at almost any site. The deep surface wound involves injury in several classes of tissue, and its reconstitution is characterized . . .