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Wang. Plast Aesthet Res 2017;4:106-7 Plastic and
DOI: 10.20517/2347-9264.2017.44
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Topic: Keloid and its Treatment Open Access
Keloid treatment: what will be the right

choice?

You-Bin Wang
Department of Plastic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China.
Correspondence to: Dr. You-Bin Wang, Department of Plastic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing 100730, China.
E-mail: wybenz@sina.com

How to cite this article: Wang YB. Keloid treatment: what will be the right choice? Plast Aesthet Res 2017;4:106-7.
Article history: Received: 10-06-2017 Accepted: 14-06-2017 Published: 17-07-2017

Dr. You-Bin Wang is an outstanding Professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery at Peking Union Medical College
Hospital. He is famous in keloid treatment and study. He has invented many new surgical methods in keloid treatment
and has published many articles in this field. He is also good at cleft lip surgery, nose reconstructive surgery and
breast reconstruction.

I do not know the meaning of “disease without combination usage of them. Which method is the most
satisfactory treatment method”, but I know the principle effective? Which method should we choose? These
the doctor should obey when he faces such patients. questions have been partially answered in literatures.
That is he should choose the most effective method One can find some of these answers with just one
for the patients, considering not the interest of himself, browse. Articles in this keloid treatment series add
but the benefit of the patients, not the treatment more tips to the answer database. They covered wide
method he can offer, but the method the patients knowledge range of keloid treatment from surgical
need. Unfortunately, such principles are not followed method to adjunctive radiotherapy and post surgery
sometimes. Patients in plight are often manipulated scar rehabilitation. I hope that these tips can bring the
by evil hand and then drop into despair circumstance. patient some delightful tip. I also hope more tips will be
They become suspicious of every doctor in this field in added in this database in the future.
the end. The development in this field is then blocked
forever. It is not very easy to make a decision for keloid patient,
especially when one faces a patient with suspicion.
Keloid is one of such disease. The dilemma of its It is also easy to make a decision for keloid patient,
treatment fosters many treatment methods such especially when one make the decision in favor of the
as surgical therapy, cryosurgery, steroid injection, patient. Maybe you can not confirm the choice is right
5-flourouracil injection, radiation therapy, laser or not in the long ran at first, but the patient will tell you
therapy, and so on, even plaster made of herbs and the answer in the future. More patients will come for

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