Figure 5.

Wet wound healing reduces inflammation and scar formation. Masson's trichrome staining of (A) dry and (B) wet porcine wounds 28 days postwounding. The dry wound has a significantly greater width of scar tissue compared with the wet wound. Arrows indicate scar tissue borders. (Reprinted with permission from Reish et al.⁶⁵) To see this illustration in color, the reader is referred to the web version of this article at www.liebertpub.com/wound