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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” 1 William Shakespeare’s famous quote holds true for most situations when a scar is encountered in medical practice. Scars (also called cicatrices) are areas of fibrous tissue (fibrosis) that replace normal skin (or other tissue) after injury or disease. A scar results from the biologic process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process.
Scars have long been used (misused) by criminals for either evading/lessening punishment or for fabricating scars to frame others. Child abuse by burning comprises 6–20% of all child abuse cases, but misdiagnosis may arise in cases of some medical conditions.2
The annual incidence of child

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