Department of General Physician, University of Santander, Bogota, Colombia
Case Report
Botulinum Toxin as a Management for Scars after Cervical Disc Hernia Surgery
Author(s): Juan Farak Gomez*, Jhon Fredy Bello Cordero, Lina Marcela Blandon Santamaria, Laura Margarita Viloria Gomez, Richard Jorge Ramos Montes, Laura Juliana Jaramillo Marino, Andriun Duarte Perez, Maria Jose Rivera Castillo and Jaime Andres Lozano Navarro
Currently within the operating rooms of our hospitals there
are a number of patients requiring intervention for cervical
disc pathologies, which at the time of performing the
suturing process, a horizontal scar is acquired at the neck
level; an injury that after not being successful an adequate
resolution, both in the functional recovery of the entire
cervical area as well as the disappearance of the pain
suffered prior to intervention, results in serious
consequences that surely affect not only the image of the
patient but also the suffers, but also their psycho-emotional
development and their social development. Studies have
recently been published that support the use of botulinum
toxin injection in the muscular area adjacent to the wounds,
causing the immobilization of the wound and with it, a
significant improvement in the appearance of t.. View More»
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