Keloids are scar tissue that forms due to a hyperactive wound-healing response, triggered spontaneously or after an injury. Read on to learn how to spot these scars and their treatment measures.

Hypertrophic piercing bumps and keloid scars can look similar. However, there are various ways to differentiate them. Skin changes can occur at the site of piercings. Knowing how to tell the ...

Have you developed a hard, red, or pink bump around your belly button piercing? It might be a keloid. Here’s why they happen and what to do about it.

In a new Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper—aka, dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD—snips a keloid full of calcified "diamonds" from a teen’s ear.

Gene may open door for improved keloid, scar treatment Date: January 23, 2015 Source: Henry Ford Health System Summary: A gene that may offer a better understanding of how keloid scars develop has ...

A nonsurgical combination treatment for keloids achieved complete resolution in over 80% of patients and was associated with high satisfaction rates in an observational study of adults in Brazil ...

African-Americans are seven times more likely than Caucasians to develop an excessive growth of thick, irregularly shaped and raised scarring on their skin -- known as a keloid -- following head ...

A study (DOI: 10.1093/burnst/tkae063) published in Burns & Trauma has shed light on how inhibiting CYP24A1, an enzyme involved in vitamin D metabolism, affects keloid keratinocytes.