Is your patient demonstrating excessive tissue response to dermal injury? Is it possible that it can be keloid or hypertrophic scar? How to investigate and treat these two? This article provides a short overview about the keloids and their treatment. Keloids are the fibrous growth that extend beyond the original area of dermatological injury and involve adjacent skin. In contrast, hypertrophic scars may appear similar but remained confined within the boundary of the wound area and tend to regress spontaneously over the time.
Keloids and hypertrophic scars can both cause functional impairment and cosmetic disfigurement. Patients generally report that these affect the quality of life. Keloids affect both men and women equally. They are also more common in younger individuals. The pathogenesis of both keloids and hypertrophic scars is incompletely defined. Pathogenesis involves alterations…
