19-year-old Hispanic woman with an earlobe keloid before (top panels) and after (lower panels) treatment with steroid injection.

Steroids are a treatment option for keloids. Steroids are injected into the scar tissue to reduce the ... are a type of ...

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 ...