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KELOID

Normally the skin is an excellent healing ground for wounds.  In unfortunate circumstances the scaring process can go astray and result in slowly enlarging scars.  These are dense thick irregular lumpy scars usually seen in ears, chest, shoulders.  It can occur spontaneously anywhere.  Keloids are much common in negroids and the tendency to develop keloids may be inherited.  Rarely if the surgical incision crosses the line of tension or skin creased it may predispose to keloids.

Treatment

Intralesional steroids may be injected to flatten the keloid.  Cicacare gel ^TM may be applied as a gel sheeting though it may be expensive and the results are unpredictable.  Excision and resuturing are methods done with variable success depending on the expertise of the doctor and the tendency of the patient to develop  keloids.