Q/What treatment is best for hypertrophic scars and keloids?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Williams, Carol C ^a   De Groote, Sandy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; SILICONE GEL; TRIAMCINOLONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

COMPRESSION THERAPY; CRYOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; KELOID; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; META ANALYSIS; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; CRYOTHERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; KELOID; LASER THERAPY; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; SILICONE GELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE;

EID: 84856818493     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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