Life of a Wound: Serial Documentation of Wound Healing After Shave Removal Using Reflectance Confocal Microscopy

May 2019 | Volume 18 | Issue 5 | Case Reports | 472 | Copyright © May 2019


Radhika Srivastava BA, a Catherine Reilly BS,a Gina Francisco MBS,a Hamza Bhatti DO,a Babar K. Rao MDa,b

aRutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Somerset, NJ bWeill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

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DISCUSSION

The RCM images on day 1 show small bright cells and fibrillary structures that may correspond to neutrophils and exudate of the inflammatory phase. The RCM images on day 7 and 21 show an irregular honeycomb pattern and decrease in defect size, corresponding to re-epithelialization. The RCM image on day 21 shows multiple dilated vessels, corresponding to new vessel growth of the proliferative phase of wound healing. The RCM image on day 28 shows a regular honeycomb pattern and minimal small bright cells corresponding to resolving inflammation and the tissue remodeling phase of wound healing. RCM imag