keloplasty

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keloplasty (plural keloplasties)

(medicine) The surgical removal of a scar or keloid.
- 1960 November-December, Edmund Pinto da Fonseca, “Stretching prosthesis for cicatricial deformities of the lips”, in The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, volume 10, number 6:
  Often in keloplasty, prosthetic restorations are used to complement the surgical treatment.
- 1989, P Cubertafond, A Gainant, “[Treatment of inguinal hernia by Shouldice type herniorrhaphy. Analysis of a series of 403 cases surgically treated] (English abstract)”, in Chirurgie; memoires de l'Academie de Chirurgie, volume 115, number 2:
  A comparison was also made with an already published study of 399 keloplasties with reinforcement of the peritoneal sac using the technique proposed by R. Stoppa.
- 2003, Wiesław Woliński, Zdzisław Jankiewicz, Ryszard S. Romaniuk, Laser technology VII.: 23-27 September, 2002:
  Keloplasty in the area of larynx and trachea is performed with the use of Ho-YAG laser, with shallow effect, regardless of the density of tissue, enabling coagulation of vascular vessels.
- 2010 August, B Kim, K Iwata, K Sugimoto, S Suzuki, Y Ema, H Tsunobuchi, K Nishiwaki, “Significance of prevention and early treatment of a postoperative twisted neck: atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation after head and neck surgery”, in Journal of Anesthesia, volume 34, number 4:
  The patient was a 7-year-old boy (120 cm, 21 kg) who was scheduled to undergo keloplasty for resection of a nevus sebaceous of the right ear.