Keloids are scar tissue that forms due to a hyperactive wound-healing response triggered spontaneously or after an injury ...

Certain people are prone to keloids, a type of raised scar caused by dysfunctional wound healing, and want to know how to get rid of them. Surgery is an option, but for those unable or unwilling ...

Three women who were housed at a now-closed Detroit youth treatment center have filed a lawsuit, accusing a man who was a ...

Keloids are fibrotic scars that extend beyond the boundaries of the original wound, often causing physical disfigurement and emotional distress. These scars are driven by an overproduction of ...

They also note that being on certain medications or having certain medical conditions may also make someone more prone to developing scars that keloid. “It works similarly to a bandage ...

In this article, we report the experience of the one of the authors (S.I.), who observed an unexpected and rapid recovery of a recent postsurgical keloid scar as an incidental response to low-dose ...

Seven months later keloid was present in the herniorrhaphy scars. In December, 1950, she began to complain of pain in the right postauricular area, and a discharge was observed emanating from the ...

On the basis of the fortuitous observation of a beneficial effect of enalapril on recent and long-standing postsurgical keloid scars and confirmatory data from the literature, ACE inhibitors and ...