Friday, November 20, 2009

What are keloids?

They're like benign growths of extra skin. I used to get tiny ones for a couple weeks after I got a new piercing. Apparently burn victims get them really badly. Google image search it.

What are keloids?
scars that dont turn off growth when they've finished (or should have finished) healing a wound.
Reply:Hypertrophic scars-scars which have formed out of proportion.
Reply:smooth, pink, raised, hard growths on the skin produced by over production of collagen that form over healed wounds