title: Treatment of extensive sternum keloid scar with surgical removal and immediate reconstruction with skin flaps from a combined mammaplasty.
abstract: We report the case of a 47-year-old woman with a large keloid scar on the sternum who was submitted to a simultaneous scar removal with bilateral breast-reduction mammaplasty. Breast reduction was performed to reduce local skin tension and to provide a skin flap for the full reconstruction of the scar-removal site. The association of these surgical procedures stands as a viable alternative for the reconstruction of the sternum region, producing less keloid scarring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Skin Oncology, Hospital do Cancer, São Paulo, Brazil. oma@originet.com.br
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Braz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jorgetti
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: de Lemos
authors.forename: R I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Neves
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007627:Keloid / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016462:Mammaplasty / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013249:Sternum; D013524:Surgical Flaps