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Postoperative radiotherapy of keloids: a twenty-year experience Volume 12, numéro 1, January - February 2002

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Department of Photoradiotherapy, Institute of Dermatological Sciences of the University, Ospedale Maggiore, IRCCS, Via Pace 9, 20122 Milan, Italy.
  • Page(s) : 58-62
  • Année de parution : 2002

The management of keloids has always been a difficult problem: treatment by surgery alone is followed by recurrences in 50 to 80% of cases [1]. Therefore, adjuvant techniques have been proposed to improve therapeutic outcomes. The use of radiotherapy in the treatment of keloids was first reported by De Beaurman and Gougerot [2] in 1906: they recommended combined excision and postoperative x-ray therapy. Cosman et al. [1], in 1961, introduced [...]