April 2020 HSC Section 4 - Plastic and Reconstructive Problems

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

Siotos et al

TABLE 2. Number of Keloid Recurrences Following Various Treatments, as Reported by the Included Studies

Excision + 1 Adjuvant Drug

Excision + 2 Adjuvant Drugs

Excision + Radiation

Excision + Pressure

Excision + Skin Grafting

Study

No Excision Excision Only

Aluko-Olokun et al, 51 2014 Berman and Flores, 41 1997

10/54 22/43

22/53

41/81

Carvalho et al, 48 2012

0/1

0/2

1/7

Guix, 42 2001

3/22

5/147

Jackson et al, 44 2001 Park and Chang, 52 2015

2/13

5/19

0/8

1/5

1/3

14/66

3/89

Patel, 46 2012

7/8

20/26

D'Andrea et al, 44 2002 Hatamipour et al, 45 2011 Sclafani et al, 40 1996

16/22

2/22 1/25

5/25 4/12 6/31

1/3

2/16 0/12 3/19 6/31 0/20

Kim et al, 47 2012 Nason, 39 1942 Cao et al, 50 2015 Ozaki et al, 49 2010

12/28

6/20

8/12

13/30

5/21

FIGURE 2. Forest plot for no excision versus excision only.

FIGURE 3. Forest plot for excision only versus excision + 1 adjuvant drug.

FIGURE 4. Forest plot for excision only versus excision + radiation.

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