Keloid scars are thick ... It only penetrates the topmost layers of skin. It destroys the cells in your skin that produce collagen and causes fewer new scars to form. This treatment causes ...

Healthline/Getty Images Atrophic scars are flat, shallow depressions that heal below the top layer of skin. These scars are ... hypertrophic and keloid scars form as raised lumps of scar tissue ...

The skin is made of three main layers. The outermost layer of skin ... causing what's known as a keloid or a hypertrophic ...

Hypertrophic scars are the result of an abnormal inflammatory response to a skin injury. Any injury that goes deeper than the dermal (inner) layer of ... hypertrophic and keloid scars may both ...

Researchers examined clinical samples from keloid tissue and discovered higher concentrations and different types of bacteria compared to normal skin, particularly in the deeper layers of the keloid.

Keloids, partially considered as benign tumors, represent the most extreme example of cutaneous scarring that uniquely afflicts humans as a pathological response to wound healing. It is ...