[Clinical efficacy of keloids treated by surgical ablation and immediate postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy].

Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of intralesional excision and immediate postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy in the treatment of keloids.

Methods: Eighty-one patients with a combined total of 86 keloids were treated with 6 MeV electron beam radiotherapy after surgical intralesional excision of keloids. All received a total dose of 15 - 20 Gy for 5 consecutive days beginning the day of surgery.