An overview of keloid disease
Keloid (keloid) scars occurred in the individual body, excessive trauma to the skin reaction, expressed as fibrous tissue hyperplasia, spread over the wound, glass-like change, and can not be spontaneous regression. Is called in Chinese medicine or keloid scar giant disease, also often called keloids.
Signs and symptoms
Scar (scar) and large keloid and hair can be divided into the original two categories of secondary type. Original hair scars (scar) Keloid more in the chest or shoulder, the beginning of the little red spots with itching gradually from small to big, hard by the soft, colored red or暗红have cable strips, butterfly-shaped, round, irregular-shaped and so on. Secondary-type scar (scar), also known as keloid keloids proliferative, are divided into: acne scars and keloids and cancer. More a result of burns, trauma, acne, pyogenic infection or the use of surgery, laser, freezing, skin, hormone drugs will be closed after the damage caused by excessive proliferation of organizations and subcutaneous tissue damage degeneration, protrusion of skin color with red or itchy暗红or sting, some obviously extends the capillaries, such as drinking or eating spicy food irritation symptoms tend to increase.
Disease etiology
This connective tissue dysplasia of the internal and external reasons. Internal factors are mainly physical scars and in vivo level of estrogen, which are mostly family genetic constitution, most of the genetic cross, but not transmitted; mainly various types of external causes of skin damage, even minor trauma, such as mosquito bites, vaccination, playing ears, eyebrow tattoos, such as needle stick injuries.
Attention to whether or not scratch, injections, vaccination, acne, skin infections, surgery, trauma, burn or scald history, whether the quality of scar. Asked about the onset time, after treatment, with or without subjective symptoms and dysfunction.
Treatment
Mark physical scars, and should avoid unnecessary surgery, the scar on the skin pimple scar removal surgery should not arbitrarily, in order to avoid a greater post-operative scar healing. If you need treatment, the preferred operation, but must be within 24 hours after surgery with radiotherapy electron ,4-6Mev, radiotherapy include pinholes,外放3-5mm, total dose 10-15Gy ,2-3 times to complete.