CPB Budapest 2017

EPIDEMIOLOGY

• Keloid formation can occur within a year after injury • The most frequently involved sites are areas that are constantly subjected to high skin tension. • Wounds on the anterior chest, shoulders, flexor surfaces of the extremities (eg, deltoid region), and anterior neck and wounds that cross skin tension lines. • a wound healing by secondary intention >3 weeks. • Wounds with chronic inflammation, (earring) or repeated trauma.