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Keloid, which forms as an excessive tissue response to trauma to the skin, is a benign, hyperproliferative, recurrent growth of dermal collagen without a quiescent or regressive period throughout the process of wound healing. The aim of this study was to evaluate patient satisfaction with treatment and to compare the efficacy of intralesional injection of triamcinolone acetonide against verapamil after keloidectomy with fillet flap in auricular keloids. Our study was Duration based prospective observational study with a Duration of two years from June 2021 till May 2023 with study population inclusive of 50 patients aged between 20 and 70 years having recurrent keloid(s) over the pinna of any size or site. Keloidectomy with fillet flap and intralesional injection of trimcinolone acetonide was performed on 25 patients (30 keloids) in Group A, and keloidectomy with fillet flap and intralesional injection of verapamil was performed on 25 patients (30 keloids) in Group B. With a recurrence rate of 27%, eight keloids in Group A patients had an early recurrence three months following surgery. At nine months, nine more mixed-type cases with a 30% recurrence rate resurfaced. Recurrence seen in eight keloids out of 28 showed a 28.57% recurrence rate 12 months following surgery. Three people in Group B with three sessile keloids experienced an early recurrence at three months after surgery, with a recurrence rate of 10%. At nine months, four more cases of mixed kind returned, with a recurrence rate of 13%. A recurrence rate of 14.28% was found in 4 of 28 keloids at 12 months postoperatively. The Patient and Observer Scar Assesment Scale scores (POSAS scores) were consistently higher than Beausang scores at 1 year, indicating high patient satisfaction compared to physician assessment in both groups A and B. A keloid recurrence-free interval of 11.36 months was obtained by the Kaplan–Meier survival test (p < 0.05) in group A. Keloid recurrence-free interval of 10.98 months was evaluated by the Kaplan–Meier survival test (p < 0.05) in group B. Among Keloidectomy with fillet flap surgery with intralesional injection of triamcinolone acetonide (group A) and keloidectomy with fillet surgery with intralesional injection of verapamil (group B), at each follow-up the success rate of group B was higher than group A indicating better trend of success in this group in terms of both absence of recurrence and absence of complications without statistically significant difference between them which shown both procedures more or less similar.
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Mane, B.S., Gavali, R.M. Our Experience at Tertiary Medical College—Intralesional Injection of Triamcinolone Acetonide Versus Injection Verapamil Following Keloidectomy with Fillet Flap in Auricular Keloids. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 76, 237–244 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-023-04132-2
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