Research Article
Salami TAT and Irekpita E
Abstract
Keloids are an exuberant growth of scar tissue extending beyond the boundaries of the original wound causing it and are mainly due to excessive collagen tissue synthesis. They have predilection for certain sites in the human body.\r\nThere is an increasing trend for the location of such keloidal scars in parts of the body where they are not supposed to be.\r\nCertain cultural practices are responsible for this situation particularly in the African context. One of such practice that leads to this type of unusual complication is presented below and the pathogenesis as well as other aspects of keloidal growth are reviewed in general.