HYPERTROPHIC SCARS, KELOIDS, AND CONTRACTURES

Keloids and hypertrophic scars (HSc) are unique human dermal fibroproliferative disorders (FPD) that occur following trauma, inflammation, surgery, and burns and possibly spontaneously. Keloids occur in individuals with a familial predisposition, enlarge and extend beyond the margins of the origin wounds, and rarely regress (Fig. 1). HSc are raised, erythematous, pruritic, fibrous lesions that typically remain within the confines of the original...