Alternatives for keloid scars treatment: an integrative review

Abstract

Keloid scars affect different populations, compromising patients’ quality of life. The literature presents several treatments.The study aimed to conduct an integrative review of systematic review articles and/or meta-analyses addressing keloid treatment in the PubMed, LILACS, MEDLINE, and Cochrane databases from 2015 to 2021. After identification and following the selection and eligibility criteria, 24 articles were included for qualitative review. We observed that the diffculty in evaluating recurrence affected different keloids treatment modalities, still presenting many failure rates and the need for further studies.

Keywords

• keloid
• scar, hypertrophic
• scar
• clinical procedures
• review
• systematic reviews as topic