Treatment response of keloidal and hypertrophic sternotomy scars: Comparison among intralesional corticosteroid, 5-fluorouracil, and 585-nm flashlamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser treatments

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1149-1155

  Manuskiatti, Woraphong ^a   Fitzpatrick, Richard E ^a  

^a San Diego County Shelter   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FLUOROURACIL; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INJECTION PAIN; KELOID; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PAIN; PLIABILITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED DYE LASER; PUNCH BIOPSY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EVALUATION; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN EXFOLIATION; STERNOTOMY; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036715319     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.138.9.1149     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Cutaneous wound healing
2. Scars and keloids
3. Keloids and hypertrophic scars: Review and treatment strategies
4. Treatment of inflamed hypertrophic scars using intralesional 5-FU
5. 5-Fluorouracil and glaucoma filtering surgery, II: A pilot study
6. Wound healing in glaucoma filtering surgery
7. Fluorouracil (5-FU) and cytarabine (ara-C) inhibition of corneal epithelial cell and conjunctival fibroblast proliferation
8. Fluorouracil for the treatment of massive periretinal proliferation
9. Long-term results of trabeculectomy with collagen sponge implant containing low-dose antimetabolite
10. Five-year follow-up of the fluorouracil filtering surgery study
11. Laser treatment of scars
12. Energy density and numbers of treatment affect response of keloidal and hypertrophic sternotomy scars to the 585-nm flashlamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser
13. Colorimetric quantification of erythema: A comparison of two colorimeters (Lange Micro Color and Minolta ChromaMeter CR-200) with a clinical scoring scheme and laser doppler flowmetry
14. Rating the burn scar
15. Hypertrophic scars and keloids: A collective review
16. The molecular basis of keloid and hypertrophic scar formation
17. Cutaneous tissue repair: Practical implications of current knowledge, II
18. Perilesional linear atrophy and hypopigmentation after intralesional corticosteroid therapy
19. Treatment of keloid sternotomy scars with 585 nm flashlamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser
20. Control of hypertrophic scar growth using selective photothermolysis
21. Laser treatment of erythematous/hypertrophic and pigmented scars in 26 patients
22. Treatment of stretch marks with the 585-nm flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser
23. Prospective, single-blind, randomized, controlled study to assess the efficacy of the 585-nm flashlamppumped pulsed-dye laser and silicone gel sheeting in hypertrophic scar treatment
24. Selective non-ablative wrinkle reduction by laser
25. Non-ablative subsurface remodeling: Clinical and histologic evaluation of a 1320-nm Nd: YAG laser
26. Laser treatment of solar elastosis with epithelial preservation
27. Pulsed dye laser therapy for sun damaged skin