A new uniform protocol of combined corticosteroid injections and ointment application reduces recurrence rates after surgical keloid/hypertrophic scar excision

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 893-897

  Hayashi, Toshihiko ^a   Furukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Oyama, Akihiko ^a   Funayama, Emi ^a   Saito, Akira ^a   Murao, Naoki ^a   Yamamoto, Yuhei ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ABDOMEN; ACNE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EAR LOBE; ECCHYMOSIS; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; KELOID; MALE; OINTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; RECURRENCE RISK; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN ATROPHY; SUTURE REMOVAL; THORAX; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; KELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OINTMENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861792440     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2012.02345.x     Document Type: Article

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