Are Adhesions and Scar Tissue the Same? | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2020年10月13日—Mostofthetime,thetermsadhesionsandscartissueareusedinterchangeably.Theyarethesamething.Scartissueisthecollectionofcells ...

What is a scar? What are scar marks?

Scarring is the process by which wounds and significant damage are repaired in complex animals. Damage to the deeper layer of the skin, the dermis, is required to produce a cutaneous scar. Damage to only the epidermis, the most superficial layer of skin, will not always produce a scar.

Scar tissue is different from normal tissue not only in architecture (lacking skin appendages such as oil glands, sweat glands, hair follicles, and pigment-producing cells) but also in the type of collagen present.

Although scarring and abnormal scarring can occur in all tissues of the body (cirrhosis[1] in the liver[2], abdominal scarring leading to adhesions, Peyronies disease, Dupuytrens contracture, etc.), this p...