A case of unilateral keloid after bilateral breast reduction

Keloid scar is a manifestation of abnormal wound healing in predisposed individuals. Many treatment modalities have been tried with varying degrees of success. Radiotherapy is one such modality that is widely recognised. We present a case report and literature review based on a patient who developed...

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Autores principales: Devalia, Haresh, Mansfield, Lucy, Minakaran, Neda, Banerjee, Dibyesh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18294403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-5-3
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author Devalia, Haresh
Mansfield, Lucy
Minakaran, Neda
Banerjee, Dibyesh
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Mansfield, Lucy
Minakaran, Neda
Banerjee, Dibyesh
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description Keloid scar is a manifestation of abnormal wound healing in predisposed individuals. Many treatment modalities have been tried with varying degrees of success. Radiotherapy is one such modality that is widely recognised. We present a case report and literature review based on a patient who developed unilateral keloid scarring following bilateral breast reduction surgery. Some 4 years previously, she had undergone breast conserving surgery followed by adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. After her breast reduction surgery, she developed keloid scarring on the non-irradiated breast only. This case highlights a possible 'preventative' effect of radiotherapy in keloid formation.
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spelling pubmed-22672042008-03-13 A case of unilateral keloid after bilateral breast reduction Devalia, Haresh Mansfield, Lucy Minakaran, Neda Banerjee, Dibyesh Int Semin Surg Oncol Case Report Keloid scar is a manifestation of abnormal wound healing in predisposed individuals. Many treatment modalities have been tried with varying degrees of success. Radiotherapy is one such modality that is widely recognised. We present a case report and literature review based on a patient who developed unilateral keloid scarring following bilateral breast reduction surgery. Some 4 years previously, she had undergone breast conserving surgery followed by adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer. After her breast reduction surgery, she developed keloid scarring on the non-irradiated breast only. This case highlights a possible 'preventative' effect of radiotherapy in keloid formation. BioMed Central 2008-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2267204/ /pubmed/18294403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-5-3 Text en Copyright © 2008 Devalia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Minakaran, Neda
Banerjee, Dibyesh
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title_full A case of unilateral keloid after bilateral breast reduction
title_fullStr A case of unilateral keloid after bilateral breast reduction
title_full_unstemmed A case of unilateral keloid after bilateral breast reduction
title_short A case of unilateral keloid after bilateral breast reduction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18294403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-5-3
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