A Review of Modern Concepts of Healing of Cutaneous Wounds

Abstract

Basic-science aspects of wound healing are discussed in the light of recent developments in wound-healing research. The author discusses wound healing in six, arbitrarily chosen phases, namely, inflammation, epithelialization, vascularization, contraction, collagen synthesis and late remodeling of scars that occur simultaneously in concert, but in such a manner that enables one to distinguish clinically between healing by primary intention and healing by secondary intention.