Keloids as a serious disease such as malignancy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 993-994

  Ogawa, Rei ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN; ATTITUDE TO CHANGE; BURN; CAUCASIAN; DEPIGMENTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; KELOID; LETTER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN PAIN; SKIN PRURITUS; SURGEON; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING; NOTE;

HUMANS; KELOID;

EID: 52049120411     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818120a0     Document Type: Letter

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3. Ogawa, R., Miyashita, T., Hyakusoku, H., Akaishi, S., Kuriba-yashi, S., and Tateno, A. Postoperative radiation protocol for keloids and hypertrophic scars: Statistical analysis of 370 sites followed for over 18 months. Ann. Plast. Surg. 59: 688, 2007.