Letter: Pressure earring as an adjunct to surgical removal of earlobe keloids

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 726-

  Louis, Dionne D ^a   Garcia, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

CELL GROWTH; COMPRESSION GARMENT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; EAR LOBE; EAR SURGERY; EPITHELIZATION; FIBROBLAST; KELOID; LETTER; PRESSURE EARRING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND HEALING; EXTERNAL EAR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NOTE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EAR, EXTERNAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KELOID; PRESSURE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951261358     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01538.x     Document Type: Letter

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