Annals of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (ISSN 2835-7132) | Volume 2, Issue 3 | Case Report | Open Access
Barbara Flora*
Department of Facial Plastic Surgery My Face, Clinics and Academy, Lisbon, Portugal
*Correspondence to: Barbara Flora
Fulltext PDFFollowing otoplasty procedure is quite uncommon to have a keloid formation. During a normal scar process, it is possible to have an alteration in the hypertrophic or keloid form during the first phase of healing process, which is the first two-three months. Keloid is due to an unbalance of the Collegen II/I ratio and differs from hypertrophic scar because it grows over the margin of the scar itself. It could be caused from an external force applied to the scar or from a dysregulation of the microbioma of the skin. To treat keloid scars, compression taping or corticoid injection could be applied. When those treatments aren’t sufficient another modality is to excise the keloid and redoing the suture without tension on the scar borders. We present a peculiar bilateral and almost symmetric keloid formation on a patients underwent an otoplasty that developed a keloid after starting to use an ear-loop face mask around one-year post-op. We describe the case and our approach; we propose a post operative management in otoplasty patient during the Covid era to avoid the problems due by the frequent use of protective facial masks.
Keloid; Otoplasty; The pillars concept; COVID complication; Skin friction; Skin management
Barbara Flora, Jose Carlos Neves.1 Year Post Otoplasty Keloid Formation (Unconventional Complication Due to Wearing Ear Loop Facial Masks in Sars-Cov 19 Era). Annal of Otol Head and Neck Surg. 2023;2(3):1-8.