What is a Keloid?
- Keloid is a raised scar formed after an injury has healed.
- Keloid is caused by the synthesis of excess amounts of protein (collagen) in the skin during healing.
- Keloids are often lumpy and unaesthetic.
- The scar rises after an injury has healed, such as a surgical incision or acne.
What is Ear Pinna Keloid?
- Pinna is the outer part of your ear.
- Ear Pinna Keloids are among the most challenging plastic surgery conditions and have a significant psychosocial impact on the patient.
- We offer various treatment options for the management of ear pinna Keloids, such as:
- Surgical excision
- Intralesional corticosteroid injections
- Laser therapy
- Cryotherapy
- Radiotherapy
- Pressure therapy
- Therapy with antitumor or immunosuppressive agents.
What is the Procedure for Pinna Keloid Excision?
Steps in Surgical Excision:
- Administration of local anesthesia.
- An incision in the skin, following the margin of the Keloid.
- Excision of Keloid along with some amount of surrounding normal tissue.
- Some amount of surrounding normal tissue is removed to avoid relapse of Keloid.
- Subsequent suturing the fillet flap. (Hence the surgical is also known as fillet flap surgery)
- The wound will be treated once daily with topical antibiotics.
- Suture removal will be done after one week.
What to expect after Ear Keloid Excision Surgery?
- Immediately after surgery, the doctor places a sterile bandage over the wound.
- Healing begins within seven days after surgery, and complete recovery may take up to one year.
- Suture removal is done after 7 to 8 days.
RECURRENCE:
Ear Keloids may reappear after surgery, called recurrence.
- The recurrence rate is high for Keloid scars.
- Combinations of Surgical excision with adjuvant therapies like Radiotherapy and Intralesional corticosteroid injections have shown promising results with minimal recurrence.
Why should you choose us for Earlobe Keloid Management?
- Earlobe Keloid treatment is challenging, especially in recurrent lesions (which comes back even after treatment)
- Our suggested treatment protocol is easy to perform and cost-effective, with an acceptably low recurrence rate.
- Complications are infrequent in our surgical protocol, and even if complications arise, they can be treated efficiently and effectively.
- The adjuvant postoperative Intralesional corticosteroid injection we use is tolerated and avoids local steroid injections' possible adverse reactions.
- Furthermore, we have achieved high subjective patient satisfaction, which may be challenging to accomplish in such stubborn recurrent Keloids, especially at locations that are difficult to treat, such as earlobes.