| dc.contributor.author | Edsmyr, F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Larson, L. G | |
| dc.contributor.author | Onyango, J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wanguru, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wood, M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-09T12:21:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-09T12:21:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1973-08 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.amref.ac.ke/handle/123456789/347 | |
| dc.description | INTRODUCTION
Keloids are particularly common in Africa and because they are
often large and invalidizing they present a serious problem of medical
care. In East Africa kcloids have hitherto been treated surgically and
the frequency of recurrence would seem to have been high (Bourrel,
Resillot, Colomar a nd Piquard 1). The present study was undertaken
with the object of examining the results of treatment of keloids in East
Africa by surgery or radiotherapy alone, and by surgery followed by
radiotherapy. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | SUMMARY
Seventy nine patients (73 Africans and six Asians) with 138 keloids, have
been treated at Department of Radiotherapy, Kenyatta National Hospital,
Nairobi and followed at least two months after the completion of the treatment.
The treatment has been surgical excision, radiotherapy, surgical excision
and postoperative radiotherapy or no treatment.
Excision and postoperative radiotherapy immediately after the operation
give the best results. Excision alone, gives extremely poor results. Radiotherapy
alone gives objective reduction of the keloid and ameliion of
symptoms. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | East African Medical Journal | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | ;Vol. 50 No. 8 | |
| dc.subject | Kenyatta National Hospital | en_US |
| dc.subject | Radiotherapy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Keloids | en_US |
| dc.subject | East Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject | Radiation | en_US |
| dc.title | Radiotherapy in the treatment of keloids in East Africa | en_US |
| dc.type | Article, Journal | en_US |
