Combination of surgical excision and custom designed silicon pressure splint therapy for keloids on the helical rim

Head and Face Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Sand, Michael ^a   Sand, Daniel ^b   Boorboor, Pejman ^c   Mann, Benno ^a   Altmeyer, Peter ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus ^a   Bechara, Falk G ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EAR DISEASE; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KELOID; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PRESSURE; SPLINT;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EAR DISEASES; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KELOID; PRESSURE; SPLINTS; STEROIDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34250882735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1746160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-160X-3-14     Document Type: Article

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