18. Local Steroid Injection Therapy after Surgical Keloid/Hypertrophic
Scar Excision
Toshiko Hayashi, Naoki Murao, Yuhei Yamamoto
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hokkaido University
Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
Steroid injection is a procedure that has been conducted as adjuvant
therapy after keloid/hypertrophic scar excision. Steroid injection can
lead to possible complications such as skin atrophy, steroid purpura,
hypopigmentation and telangiectasia. However, this procedure is cost
effective because it can be conducted in private clinics since it does
not require any special equipment. In this report, we present a new
treatment that combined both steroid injection and steroid ointment
application following a uniform protocol after surgical keloid/hypertrophic scar excision.
