Hypertrophic scars and keloids are 2 forms of excessive cutaneous scarring that occur in predisposed individuals. The healing process varies greatly among patients, and the risk of a bad scar ...

We learn early in life if we’re prone to keloid scarring. For me, it was aged 8, the school playground. I was always clumsy but that typically meant a whole lot of broken glasses and unexplained ...

If you have a raised, firm, thick scar that won't go away in an area where your skin has undergone some type of injury or trauma, you may have a keloid. The appearance of a keloid can vary greatly ...

On the basis of the fortuitous observation of a beneficial effect of enalapril on recent and long-standing postsurgical keloid scars and confirmatory data from the literature, ACE inhibitors and ...