Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid

Helical keloids are difficult to treat as surgical excision requires effective compression of the operative scar to prevent recurrence while retaining the contour and elasticity of the helix. The authors fabricated a conforming custom made post-operative splint from a commonly used dental material....

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Autores principales: Chamaria, Ankita, De Sousa, Reuben Fernando, Aras, Meena Ajay, Mascarenhas, Kennedy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28216825
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.197250
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author Chamaria, Ankita
De Sousa, Reuben Fernando
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description Helical keloids are difficult to treat as surgical excision requires effective compression of the operative scar to prevent recurrence while retaining the contour and elasticity of the helix. The authors fabricated a conforming custom made post-operative splint from a commonly used dental material. Splints could be fabricated in both pre-operative and post-operative stage.
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spelling pubmed-52889202017-02-17 Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid Chamaria, Ankita De Sousa, Reuben Fernando Aras, Meena Ajay Mascarenhas, Kennedy Indian J Plast Surg Case Report Helical keloids are difficult to treat as surgical excision requires effective compression of the operative scar to prevent recurrence while retaining the contour and elasticity of the helix. The authors fabricated a conforming custom made post-operative splint from a commonly used dental material. Splints could be fabricated in both pre-operative and post-operative stage. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5288920/ /pubmed/28216825 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.197250 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid
title Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid
title_full Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid
title_fullStr Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid
title_full_unstemmed Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid
title_short Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid
title_sort surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288920/
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