Introduction

Keloid scars are scars that overgrow the edges of the wound, increasing in size disproportionately. The scar presents a reddish colour, is hard and lumpy and itches many times. When the keloid conservative treatments fail, either laser, pressotherapy, or the intralesional application of corticoids, there is brachytherapy. Brachytherapy is a 95% effective therapy against any type of keloids and solve them definitively.

Surgery duration

1 hour

Bed

Not required

Recovery

1 week

Anesthesia

Local

Effect

Permanent

Results

Immediate

What is it about?

Brachytherapy consists of irradiating the keloids with radiotherapy directly on the scars when they are long and big. If they are small, first, they are removed surgically and a fine catheter is left inside the wound with the purpose of giving radiotherapy through it under a computer-controlled process so as to know where to give more or less radiation. In this way, a hypoxic-hypocellular and hypovascular tissue is obtained to avoid the excessive fibroblasts migration to the area, achieving a better and more aesthetic scar.

Preoperative

As in any medical procedure, it will be necessary to have a first-visit diagnosis, in which the most suitable technique or treatment will be assessed in each case.