Surgical management of auricular keloids using the fillet flap technique
Emily Deehan, Allison Eaton, Joseph Gofman, Daniel Fischer · 2026
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Emily Deehan and colleagues recount in 2026 how a fillet flap operation tamed a large keloid on a young man's earlobe. Keloids are scars that keep growing past the first wound and often come back after treatment. Ear sites are common after piercing and hard to hide.
Their patient, a man aged 26, carried a lump about four by two centimeters that had shrugged off steroid shots for 18 months. Surgeons cut out the keloid core while keeping a thin skin flap, then closed the site with that flap and added steroid shots. The method shuts the wound with no pull and aims to cut the odds of return.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Emily Deehan, Allison Eaton, Joseph Gofman, Daniel Fischer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7941 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |