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What is your regimen for treating a keloid with radiation alone?
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Radiation Oncology · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Our institutional experience (Hoang, Aesthet Surg J 2017) has largely been with post-excisional RT, although at our institution we have on occasion treated definitively with RT alone. We do not have a standardized regimen for primary RT at our institution and the Malaker et al article is the only pu...
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Radiation Oncology · Cancer Care Northwest
Another published radiation only treatment option for keloids is with HDR brachytherapy (Guix et al, IJROBP 2001). The following article treated 22 patients with HDR brachytherapy alone. Plastic tubes were placed through the skin to cover the whole scar following local anesthesia. In these patients ...