Dermatology Department of County Hospital: Surgical Removal of "Scar" to Radically Treat "pruritus"

Ms. Zhang, who lives in Phoenix Town, has been very distressed recently: her 4-year-old son underwent cryptorchidism surgery at the age of 2, leaving a scar about 2 cm long in the groin. In the past year, Ms. Zhang found that the child was always scratching the scar, and it kept saying it was itchy and sometimes painful. Later, the scar was obviously raised, thickened, and streaked, like a “meat strip”. horrible.

“This scar is not only ugly, but the key child is also very uncomfortable. It itches every day and scratches endlessly…” Ms. Zhang told Dr. Yang Lei in the dermatology department of the county hospital. child’s condition. Yang Lei carefully checked the child’s scar and found that the scope of the scar exceeded the scope of the original surgical incision. It was a typical “keloid”. Considering that the effect of simple external medicine, local injection and photoelectric therapy was not good, after discussing with the dermatology expert team , It is recommended to use surgical excision of the scar, combined with soft rays and injection therapy to completely cure the scar.

Because the child was young and did not cooperate with the operation, under general anesthesia, the dermatologist team carried out the scar excision and suture for the child. The operation was very successful. Next step , and follow-up soft radiation therapy will be performed after the stitches are removed.