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Abstract
The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of ND-YAG Laser versus combined cryosurgery with liquid nitrogen and intralesional corticosteroid injection in the treatment of keloids and hybertrophic scars and to predict the possible complications of both modalities.
It is concluded that ND-YAG laser and cryosurgery followed by intralesional corticosteroid showed very similar cure rates but cryosurgery showed more tolerability by the patient and less complications. ND-YAG laserb and cryosurgery followed by intralesional corticosteroid injection are considered the optimum therapeutic modality for treatment of keloids and hypertrophic scars and they showed reasonable success in the present study.
Good selection of the patient for achieving the best results should be fulfilled. Younger, secondary, firm, more vascular lesions, will give excellent results whether treated by ND-YAG laser or by cryosurgery followed by intralesional corticosteroids.