The combined use of cryosurgery and intralesional injections of suspensions of fluorinated adrenocorticosteroids for reducing keloids and hypertrophic scars.
Freezing with liquid nitrogen in the conventional manner of cryosurgery followed immediately by injection of a suspension of a fluorinated adrenocorticosteroid is an effective way of treating keloids and hypertrophic scars. Details of the method are given.
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D003452:Cryosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007627:Keloid / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D014222:Triamcinolone Acetonide / Q000627:therapeutic use
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D014222:Triamcinolone Acetonide