KELOID; PRODUCTION OF KELOID ANIMAL MODEL

Production of Keloid Animal Model

Keloids and hypertrophic scars are basically an overabundance of fibrosis in cutaneous healing process. Unfortunately, keloids are only found in human beings. So far no successful animal model of keloid has been reported. Objectives: To produce an animal model of keloid. Main Outcome Measure: Animal model of keloid. Design: Prospective quasiexperimental trial. Setting: Department of Pathology a...

Primary Corneal Keloid

Purpose: To report the clinical presentation, histopathologic findings, and surgical treatment in a series of cases with primary corneal keloid. Case Reports: Six Iranian patients (a father and two sons, a mother and her daughter, and one isolated male patient) without any history of corneal trauma or systemic diseases were clinically and histologically evaluated for a slowly-growing, white opa...

The Keloid Strikes Back

DESCRIPTION A 12-year-old African American woman presented to a plastic surgeon with a 1-year history of a slowly growing soft tissue mass behind her left ear. According to her, she had chicken pox and a residual pock mark behind that ear. As a result of irritation in that area from her glasses, she developed a cosmetically deforming keloid shown on the left. The keloid was subsequently excised...

Keloid pathogenesis and treatment.

BACKGROUND Keloid management can be difficult and frustrating, and the mechanisms underlying keloid formation are only partially understood. METHODS Using original and current literature in this field, this comprehensive review presents the major concepts of keloid pathogenesis and the treatment options stemming from them. RESULTS Mechanisms for keloid formation include alterations in growt...

Keloid Growths Following Vaccination