Intralesional Cryotherapy versus Excision with Corticosteroids or Brachytherapy for Keloid Treatment: Preliminary Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

INTRODUCTION: Keloids are a burden for patients due to physical, aesthetic and social complaints. Treatment remains a challenge because of therapy resistance and high recurrence rates. Decision making in keloid treatment is difficult due to heterogeneity of the condition and the lack of comparative studies with informative outcomes. The main goal of treatment is to improve the patients’ quality of life (QoL); this implies that, apart from surgical outcomes, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) need to be taken into account.