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Matthew J Davies1, Darrell Perkins2
1St George and Sutherland Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Abstract:
Two cases are presented that demonstrate normal wound healing following bilateral reduction mammoplasty, in young female patients taking therapeutic doses of Isotretinoin (Roaccutane). Review of the literature does not provide evidence that Isotretinoin impairs would healing, nor that it promotes hypertrophic or keloid scarring in surgical patients.
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