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© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	Keloid_1_090828	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) / wound healing
	*Body Site:*	chest	*Age:*	56 years
	*Contributor:*	Rashmi Mittal
	*Description:*	dumbell shaped 5 X 2 cm smooth topped waxy pink plaque
	*Comments:*	This 56-year-old man developed keloids on his chest and ear lobes following minor trauma to these sites.

© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	keloid_1_090617	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors)
	*Body Site:*	shoulder	*Age:*	71 years
	*Contributor:*	George Wettach, MD
	*Description:*	There are broad, haphazardly arranged bands of highly eosinophilic collagen within the dermis. A perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate is also present in an otherwise unremarkable superficial dermis.
	*Comments:*	Keloids are indurated and variably pruritic cutaneous scars resulting from exuberant wound healing. The differential includes hypertrophic scars which exhibit more cellular collagen bundles arranged in parallel arrays.

© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	Keloid_1_080819	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	environmental injury
	*Body Site:*	back	*Age:*	30 years
	*Contributor:*	Manas Puhan, MD
	*Description:*	large thick sinewy fibrotic reddish brown well demarcated plaque
	*Comments:*	A 30-year-old woman sustained a burn to her back 2 months ago when her oven exploded. She complained of itching in the resulting keloid.

© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	Keloid_1_080326	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	neoplasm, benign
	*Body Site:*	ear lobe / ear	*Age:*	20 years
	*Contributor:*	Rebecca Macal
	*Description:*	2.5 cm hyperpigmented fibrotic tumor
	*Comments:*	A 20-year-old woman developed an itchy painful keloid on her right ear lobe 2 months after ear piercing.

© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	Keloid_1_071019	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID / TRAUMA	*Category:*	neoplasm, benign / lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors)
	*Body Site:*	ear lobe / ear	*Age:*	30 years
	*Contributor:*	Alyson Brosseau
	*Description:*	2.5 cm brown spherical nodule
	*Comments:*	This 30-year-old man developed a painful keloid on his left earlobe following a piercing which left him a scar.

© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	Keloid_1_071018	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID / TRAUMA	*Category:*	lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) / neoplasm, benign / lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors)
	*Body Site:*	ear lobe / ear	*Age:*	17 years
	*Contributor:*	Mary Tonsager
	*Description:*	2 cm firm brown nodule
	*Comments:*	A 17-year-old woman developed a large keloid on the back of her left earlobe following ear piercing.

© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	keloid_5_070929	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	neoplasm, benign
	*Body Site:*	ear	*Age:*	13 years
	*Contributor:*	Bernard Cohen, MD
	*Description:*	tissue specimen after removal with carbon dioxide laser
	*Comments:*	This adolescent girl complained of pain and itching from a large keloid arising from the right ear lobe. The lesion was "peeled off" the back of the ear and ear lobe with a carbon dioxide laser.
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© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	keloid_4_070929	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) / neoplasm, benign / treatment, carbon dioxide laser / treatment
	*Body Site:*	ear lobe / ear	*Age:*	13 years
	*Contributor:*	Bernard Cohen, MD
	*Description:*	wound after removal of keloid with carbon dioxide laser
	*Comments:*	This adolescent girl complained of pain and itching from a large keloid arising from the right ear lobe. The lesion was "peeled off" the back of the ear and ear lobe with a carbon dioxide laser.
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© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	keloid_3_070929	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) / neoplasm, benign / treatment, carbon dioxide laser / treatment
	*Body Site:*	ear lobe / ear	*Age:*	13 years
	*Contributor:*	Bernard Cohen, MD
	*Description:*	wound after removal of keloid with carbon dioxide laser
	*Comments:*	This adolescent girl complained of pain and itching from a large keloid arising from the right ear lobe. The lesion was "peeled off" the back of the ear and ear lobe with a carbon dioxide laser.
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© 2001-2010, DermAtlas	*Image Name:*	keloid_2_070929	*File Type:*	jpg
	*Diagnosis:*	KELOID	*Category:*	lumps & bumps (plaques, nodules, tumors) / neoplasm, benign
	*Body Site:*	ear lobe / ear	*Age:*	13 years
	*Contributor:*	Bernard Cohen, MD
	*Description:*	7.5 cm hyperpigmented lobulated fibrotic tumor
	*Comments:*	This adolescent girl complained of pain and itching from a large keloid arising from the right ear lobe. The lesion was "peeled off" the back of the ear and ear lobe with a carbon dioxide laser.
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