Keloids: Treatment and Recurrence

Raffy Karamanoukian, MD answers: Does Pixel treat leg scars and keloids?

Does Pixel treat leg scars and keloids?


Raffy Karamanoukian, MD
9 months ago
By Raffy Karamanoukian, MD - Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon

Keloids have a genetic component wherein the body does not recognize the endpoint or plateau phase of collagen deposition in wound healing. The optimal treatments remain keloid tissue compression and injection of corticosteroids intralesionally.

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