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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Facial Plast Surg. 2017 Sep 1;19(5):379–385. doi: 10.1001/jamafacial.2017.0007

Figure 1. Representative Confocal Microscopic Images of Sample Subjects’ Cutaneous innervation and Mast Cells.

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A) Confocal microscopic image taken of facial skin from a 53-year-old female who underwent a primary facelift. (40.6 epidermal nerve fibers per millimeter).

Basement membrane (BM) - red, epidermal nerve fibers (ENFs) - green, capillaries (CAP) - pink.

B) Specimen from a 64-year-old female who underwent a revision facelift 11 years after her primary surgery. (13.8 epidermal nerve fibers per millimeter)

C) Specimen from a 47-year-old female with a 25 year history of smoking who underwent a primary facelift. (14.2 epidermal nerve fibers per mm2)