There are many different types of scars, including: Hypertrophic scars. Caused by excess collagen production during healing, these scars do not extend beyond the wound margin. Atrophic scars.
If you have a raised, firm, thick scar that won't go away in an area where your skin has undergone some type of injury or trauma, you may have a keloid. The appearance of a keloid can vary greatly ...
We learn early in life if we’re prone to keloid scarring. For me, it was aged 8, the school playground. I was always clumsy but that typically meant a whole lot of broken glasses and unexplained ...
Some of the most common treatments for keloids include surgical excision and steroids applied directly into the skin lesion. New therapeutic targets for treating scars were explored. By balancing ...
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 ...