What is keloid?

How are keloids formed ?


Normally when there is a wound on the skin due to trauma or infection, it heals with scarring. If the scar tissue continues to grow beyond the margins of the original wound, it forms a keloid.





What is a keloid ?


A keloid is a firm to hard, irregularly shaped, thickened overgrowth with claw like projections. It may be asymptomatic or painful, tender and pruritic (itchy).

What is keloid?
A thick, raised scar.
Reply:our skin heals from wounds by scarring, keloid is a a type of scar wherein the muscle grow outside to heal the wound. if your family have keloidal scars, then you might have the same scarring too..
Reply:Keloid is what results when our old scars get scarred again and again, thereby looking to be way different from the our regular skin tissue. :)
Reply:A keliods is a greatly enlarged scar that projects above the skin surface. The skin heals by formation of scar tissue, which at first is often red and somewhat prominent. As the days pass, a scar usually becomes flat. But for many special constituent people, sometimes scars enlarge to form firm, smooth, hard growths called keloids.
Reply:Predominantly for some minorities, its a long lasting type of scar. Normally, a flesh wound would fix itself by clotting at the surface, then healing, layer by layer. Sometimes the body works overtime, and too many skin cells are created to fix it. The skin may appear raised at the keloid. They can appear, virtually anywhere from your legs to your tongue, just because of an overactive response to injury

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