Keloids are scars that grow beyond the boundaries of a cutaneous injury, inflammation, surgical incision, or burn. They are the result of an overgrowth of dense fibrous tissue that usually develops after healing of a skin injury, and do not usually regress spontaneously. In addition to symptomatic relief, cosmetic concern is the primary reason patients seek medical intervention. Therapeutic options such as occlusion dressings, intralesional corticosteroids or interferon injections, silicone gel application, cryotherapy, irradiation, and ablative lasers have been used in various combinations. We present the results from two patients who underwent UVA1 laser therapy.
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Port J Card Thorac Vasc Surg
January 2025
Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, U. N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Center, Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Port J Card Thorac Vasc Surg
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Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India.
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Health Policy Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu-Campus, Enugu, Nigeria.
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Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria.
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