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13 Ιουλ 2023 · Surgical removal. If your keloid hasn't responded to other therapies, your doctor might recommend removing it with surgery in combination with other methods. Surgery alone has a recurrence rate of 45% to 100%.
13 Ιουλ 2023 · Your doctor might recommend applying a pressure pad or a silicone gel pad to a wound while it's healing. Adults need to take these preventive steps for six months after skin injury, and children up to 18 months. Applying pressure earrings to your earlobes after an ear piercing helps prevent keloids.
In a pilot study, post-surgical use of imiquimod 5% cream was effective in treating earlobe keloids without recurrence after 12 months’ follow-up.95 In addition, alleviation of symptoms such as pruritus and pain within the first post-operative month was reported in all patients.95 Likewise, Berman et al. showed the effectiveness of imiquimod ...
Shons et al evaluated 31 earlobe keloids in 20 patients. After surgical excision of the scar and adjunctive therapy using three postoperative injections of triamcinolone; in a follow-up period of 12 to 62 months, only one keloid recurred.
In this prospective interventional study, 21 female patients who developed keloid after earlobe piercing were consecutively enrolled for surgical excision followed by intralesional triamcinolone acetonide (TA) injection.
9 Σεπ 2020 · Despite treatment options for keloid scars including medical and surgical therapies, such as intralesional steroid injection and surgical excision, the recurrence rate remains high. Herein we consolidate recently published narrative reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses to provide an overview of updated treatment recommendations for ...
Keloids are challenging to treat due to the high probability of recurrence. In our multidisciplinary team we have used a combined approach for management of patients with keloids on the ear. We present a case series of six patients.
