Tumoral Keloids:

Keloid tumor in the neck area.

Most keloid lesions start as a small spot on the skin. Over time, the small lesions grow in size and become larger. Some keloid lesions have a tendency to grow into round lesions and rise above skin level. Tumoral keloid lesions grow in size and become larger than 2 centimeters in diameter. Most large earlobe keloids are by definition “tumoral”.

Treatment of these keloids is often complicated by performing a wrong first treatment procedure. It is by gut feeling that most surgeons jump into cutting a tumoral keloid. Surgery for keloids often results in the formation of a new keloid.

This is due to the fact that a surgeon’s scalpel will induce a new skin injury in a patient who is already prone to keloid formation. Skin injury from surgery will trigger the formation of a new keloid. Jumping into the surgical removal of nodular or tumoral keloid is not scientific, and is done based on a gut reaction from surgeons more than being based on scientific facts.

Cryotherapy is safest and most effective method of treating tumoral keloids. Ear tumoral keloids respond very well to cryotherapy.