'Aggressive keloid': A severe variant of familial keloid scarring

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 554-555

  Bayat, Ardeshir ^a,c,d   Arscott, Guyan ^b   Ollier, William E R ^c   Ferguson, Mark W J ^c   McGrouther, D Angus ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE GEL; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KELOID; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; SCAR; SCAR FORMATION; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 0345096457     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.96.11.554     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Bayat A, McGrouther DA, Ferguson MWJ. Clinical review article: medicine, science and future series: skin scarring. BMJ 2003;326:88-92
2. Marneros AG, Norris JE, Olsen BR, Reichenberger E. Clinical genetics of familial keloids. Arch Dermatol 2001;137:1429-34
3. Bloom D. Heredity of keloids. Review of the literature and report of a family with multiple keloids in five generations. N Y State Med J 1956;56:511-19
4. Omo-Dare P. Genetic studies in keloids. J Nat Med Assoc 1975;67:428-32
5. Datubo-Brown, DD. Keloids: A review of the literature. Br J Plast Surg 1990;43:70-7
6. Raje D, Char G. Crippling giant keloid. Br J Surg 1980;67:452-3
7. Kurwa AR. Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome and spontaneous keloids. Clin Exp Dermatol 1979;4:251-4
8. Goeminne L. A new probably X-linked inherited syndrome: congenital muscular torticollis, multiple keloids, cryptorchidism and renal dysplasia. Acta Genet Med Gemellol 1968;17:439-67
9. Haugen OH, Bertelsen T. A new hereditary conjunctivo-corneal dystrophy associated with dermal keloid formation. Acta Ophthalmol Scand 1998;76:461-5
10. Shaffer JJ, Taylor SC, Cook-Bolden F. Keloidal scars: a review with a critical look at therapeutic options. J Am Acad Dermatol 2002;46:S63-97