Treatment of keloids: What’s news?
Abstract
Keloids are still therapeutic glitches, mostly disfiguring lesions which cause physical, functional and psychological burdens. Most patients with keloids are worried about cosmetic, some have grievances of itchy pain or a burning sense around them, though. The firmness can range from pliable to rigid. Most lesions tend to nurture gradually over a few months to a year. Most of them finally discontinue growing and stay unchanging or even withdraw to some extent.
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