April 2020 HSC Section 4 - Plastic and Reconstructive Problems

Annals of Plastic Surgery • Volume 83, Number 2, August 2019

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0% (white 100%) Ear (100%) N/S Surgery (100%) N/S

N/S

N/S

N/S

N/S N/S N/S N/S N/S N/S

Back or abdomen (40%), sternum (38%), deltoid (10%) Range, 2 – 6 N/S N/S

2 – 6 N/S N/S

Not estimable (no full text available) N/A China N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Not estimable (no full text available) N/A Japan N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Mean, 11; range, 1 – 21 41% N/S N/S Burn (100%) Multiple

Intralesional TAC injections (83%)

Anatomic Location Lesion Size, cm Etiology Prior Treatments Surgery or steroid injection Range, 0.5 – 3.0 Ear piercing

Mean, 28 64.5% Earlobe (100%) N/S Ear piercing (97%) Range, 8 – 61 88% Earlobe 99 (86%), neck (2.4%), chest (1.6%), back (0.8%), extremities (0.8%), other: head (9%) (50%), trauma (9%), chicken pox (3%), surgery (5%), burn (1.4%), unknown (31.6%) Mean length: 4 .2cm, Surgery or trauma

Ear piercing (79.2%), trauma

(12.5%),

surgery (8%)

0% (Asian 100%) Ear (100%) N/S Ear piercing (100%)

Mean, 25; range, 7 – 64 75% Ear (100%) Mean, 2.6; range, 0.5 – 6 Range, 22 – 45 0% (White 100%)

mean width: 1 .8 cm

trunk (43.2%), extremities (11.2%)

deltoid (13.6%),

sternum (13.6%)

Back (22.7%),

0% (Middle Eastern 100%)

Percent of African

American

Range, 22 – 45

Range, 9 – 27

Period of Recruitment Location Sample Size Age, y 10* N/S USA 49 Patients (51 keloids) 3 † 1991 – 1992 USA 25 Females, 6 males 8 males

23.8 (8.5)

Mean, 42 0.6% Face (45.6%),

20 males

35 males

10 males

28 males

24 males

Retrospective cohort 13* 2006 – 2009 Brazil 3 Females, 6 males

36 Females Mean (SD),

Korea

2 † 2004 – 2008 Iran 30 Females,

Retrospective cohort 15* 1993 – 1996 USA 66 Females,

Prospective cohort 13* 1991 – 1998 Spain 134 Females, Retrospective cohort

Retrospective cohort 16* 2000 – 2008 USA 10 females, Retrospective cohort Not estimable (no full text available in English) 2005 – 2011 South

16* N/S USA 14 Females,

13* N/S Italy 16 Females,

Assessment Score

Quality

Prospective, cohort

randomized

Retrospective cohort

randomized

Prospective, cohort

randomized

Prospective,

Prospective,

Prospective,

TABLE 1. Characteristics of Patients in the Included Studies Study, Year Study Design Nason, 39 1942 Sclafani et al, 40 1996 Berman and Flores, 41 1997 Guix, 42

Kim et al, 47 2012

Cao et al, 50 2015 ‡

2010 ‡

Jackson et al, 43

D'Andrea et al, 44 2002

Hatamipour et al, 45 2011

Carvalho et al, 48

et al, 49

Patel, 46

2001

2001

2012

2012

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