A clinical review of phototherapy for psoriasis

P Zhang, MX Wu - Lasers in medical science, 2018 - Springer
Psoriasis is an autoimmune inflammatory skin disease. In the past several decades,
phototherapy has been widely used to treat stable psoriatic lesions, including trunk, scalp …

Cutaneous scarring: basic science, current treatments, and future directions

CD Marshall, MS Hu, T Leavitt, LA Barnes… - Advances in wound …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Scarring of the skin from burns, surgery, and injury constitutes a major burden
on the healthcare system. Patients affected by major scars, particularly children, suffer from …

[HTML][HTML] Keloids: a review of etiology, prevention, and treatment

U Betarbet, TW Blalock - The Journal of clinical and aesthetic …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Keloids are abnormal scars that cause significant emotional and physical distress in patients
when inadequately treated. Keloid formation is theorized to occur as a result of an …

Keloids: current and emerging therapies

N Ojeh, A Bharatha, U Gaur… - Scars, burns & …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Keloids are pathological scars that grow over time and extend beyond the initial site of injury
after impaired wound healing. These scars frequently recur and rarely regress. They are …

Physical management of scar tissue: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Deflorin, E Hohenauer, R Stoop… - The journal of …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Objective: The aim of this systematic review with meta-analysis was to describe the status on
the effects of physical scar treatments on pain, pigmentation, pliability, pruritus, scar …

The spectrum of scarring in craniofacial wound repair

HE desJardins-Park, S Mascharak, MS Chinta… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Fibrosis is intimately linked to wound healing and is one of the largest causes of wound-
related morbidity. While scar formation is the normal and inevitable outcome of adult …

Early laser intervention to reduce scar formation–a systematic review

KE Karmisholt, A Haerskjold… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of laser treatment to affect wound healing and subsequently minimize scar
formation has been investigated in recent years. However, no systematic review links these …

Pulsed dye laser versus long-pulsed Nd: YAG laser in the treatment of hypertrophic scars and keloid: a comparative randomized split-scar trial

AESAEH Al-Mohamady, SMA Ibrahim… - Journal of cosmetic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Keloids and hypertrophic scars are benign fibrous growths that occur after
trauma or wounding of the skin and present a major therapeutic problem. Objective: The …

Prevention or treatment of hypertrophic burn scarring: a review of when and how to treat with the pulsed dye laser

MP Brewin, TS Lister - Burns, 2014 - Elsevier
The purpose of this review is to investigate the use of Pulsed Dye Laser (PDL) as a
therapeutic tool for hypertrophic burns scarring. The difference between keloids and …

Treatment of keloids and hypertrophic scars. Position statement of the Brazilian expert group GREMCIQ

GV Oliveira, LD Metsavaht, BV Kadunc… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Keloids (K) and hypertrophic scars (HS) are abnormal responses to wound healing that
occur as the result of dermal inflammation. Despite the advances on their treatment, many …