Clinical Research Directory

Radiotherapy for Keloids

The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of radiation therapy (RT) in the treatment of unresected keloids.

Ritlecitinib in Patients With Keloids or Those Undergoing Keloidectomy

Keloids are common, benign cutaneous overgrowths that manifest clinically as raised, hypertrophic, often hyperpigmented lesions which are formed in response to dermal injury or idiopathic stimuli. Although keloids are a common disease, it's exact incidence and prevalence is not known. Despite the debilitating nature of keloids, current treatment modalities are limited in efficacy; there is no universally effective therapy available to patients. The research team hypothesize that ritlecitinib as a JAK3/TEC inhibitor will be able to reverse both the systemic and local keloid disease process by re-establishing immune homeostasis.

Preoperative Silicone Ointment and Wound Healing

Optimal scar healing is of great importance to patients, especially following surgery of the head and neck. This study evaluates the effectiveness of preoperative silicone ointment in wound healing in head and neck surgeries.

Genetic Analysis of Keloids

Keloids have a strong genetic component. The goal of this study is to identify genes and regulatory elements on chromosomes that are the cause for keloids or contribute to keloid scarring.

Comparing the Effect of siSPARC Microneedle Patch Versus siSPARC+siLR4A Microneedle Patch on Post-surgical Scars

This randomized, double-blind controlled study aims to compare the effect on appearance of post- surgical scars between daily application of siSPARC microneedle patch versus siSPARC + siLR4A microneedle patches. These are patches comprising short microneedles embedded with hydrolysed RNA (siRNAs).

Effect of Strontium-90 Brachytherapy Combined With Hyperthermia in the Treatment of Keloid

Keloid patients were randomized into the experimental and control groups. Experimental group: Strontium-90 (Sr-90) brachytherapy followed by hyperthermia. Control group: Sr-90 brachytherapy alone .

Efficacy and Safety of Fractional CO2 Laser Combined With Intralesional Insulin, Botulinum Toxin or Triamcinolone Acetonide in the Treatment of Keloid: A Clinical, Dermoscopic and Immunohistochemical Study.

Keloids are macroscopic cutaneous scarring that result from disturbance of wound healing, that occurs on predisposed individuals . Keloid shows a kind of over-healing, producing over abundant wound matrix responsible for raised, inflexible red scar tissue, that causes pain and itching .

Web Based Investigation of Natural History of Keloid Disorder, an Online Survey

This trial intends to gather very basic clinical information about keloid, its patterns of presentation, family history, ethnic background and correlation with the type of keloid, as well as prior treatment results that patients have had received.