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 investigate such an effect and to review other mechanisms this toxin might have on the healing process. We also reviewed the role of botulinum toxin in the management of hypertrophic scars and cleft lip repair.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Annals of Saudi Medicine

• Publication date

  2013-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.5144/0256-4947.2013.482PMID 24188943PMCID 6074896
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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