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Keloid Treatments to Ensure They Never Reoccur?
asked 2 years ago by Shopaholic in India
Latest answer by Peter A. Aldea, MD
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Tags: keloid scar
What are the ways in which you can treat keloids and make sure that they never reoccur? Thanks.
2 answers to Keloid Treatments to Ensure They Never Reoccur?
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Keloid treatments to ensure they never reccur do NOT Exist
A Keloid is NOT just an ugly or exuberant (hypertrophic) scar. It is a scar that has many of the characteristics of a malignant tumor without the ability to spread elsewhere.
Part of the frustration of dealing with keloids is that there is NO one treatment that can truly and uniformly always make them go away permanently. Many methods have been tried to permanently remove keloids (intralesional injections with a variety of agents, compression, excision followed by various modalities,...
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Keloids
Formation of keloids are infuenced by many factors, some has to do with surgical techniques and site. But genetic factors are also very important and in that respect recurrence cannot be entirely eliminated or predicted. There are many treatments (surgical excision, intralesional injections, abrasive techniques, various lasers and, yes, low dose external radiation) that is used today and depending on location and size treatement is customized.
Andrew Pichler, MD
Sacramento Facial Plastic Surgeon
Sacramento Facial Plastic Surgeon