Head and Neck Keloid: Treatment by Core Excision and Delayed Intralesional Injection of Steroid

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1292-1296

  Donkor, Peter ^a  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK KELOID; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KELOID; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; EAR, EXTERNAL; FACE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; KELOID; MALE; NECK; TRIAMCINOLONE;

EID: 34250352763     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2006.10.049     Document Type: Article

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