BACKGROUND The assessment of activity in keloids may be critical for defining their management. There is a lack of clinical scorings designed for the evaluation of keloids and biopsies may be contraindicated. OBJECTIVE To ...

Keloid is a benign fibroblastic tumor that is most often secondary to tissue injury. The clinical presentation is a hard red or purple tumor, mostly itchy or painful. The clinical objectives are to report an ulcerated ...

Keloids are the result of a dysfunctional scarring process that leads to excessive deposition of extracellular matrix in susceptible individuals, causing them physical, psychological, and social discomfort. Many studies ...

In vitro studies with keloid fibroblasts frequently present contradictory results. This may occur because keloids present distinct genotypic and phenotypic characteristics in its different regions, such as the peripheral ...

Keloids are common forms of abnormal scar resulting from abnormal responses to wounding that can originate after trauma or other injuries of the skin. They can be induced by surgery, tear, tattooing, burning, injection, ...

Keloids are considered to be benign hyperproliferative growths of dense fibrous tissue and overabundant deposition of disorganized, thick, hyalinized collagen that result from an abnormal tissue response to cutaneous injury. ...

Objective: To investigate psychological stress on the prognosis of the postoperative recurrence of keloids.Methods: Patients with keloids (n=25), candidates for surgical resection and postoperative radiotherapy, had their ...