Limandjaja, Grace C.
van den Broek, Leonarda J.
Waaijman, Taco
Breetveld, Melanie
Monstrey, Stan
Scheper, Rik J.
Niessen, Frank B.
Gibbs, Susan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3446-6138
Funding for this research was provided by:
Dutch Government: Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (INT102010)
Article History
Received: 13 June 2018
Revised: 3 October 2018
Accepted: 21 October 2018
First Online: 28 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: Tissue collection procedures were performed in compliance with the ‘Code for Proper Secondary Use of Human tissue’ as formulated by the Dutch Federation of Medical Scientific Organization (ExternalRef removed).
: The discarded skin was collected anonymously if patients had not objected to use of their rest material (opt-out system). Keloid scars (Kscar) were obtained from patients undergoing scar removal via excision. The discarded scar tissue was coded to enable the collection of additional relevant information (e.g. previous treatment, age of scar) and were included only after obtaining oral informed consent.