Abstract
Purpose: to describe the clinical characteristics of surgically treated auricular keloids. Subjects and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study on 45 patients with auricular keloid surgery at 108 Military Central Hospital during the period from June 2020 to June 2023. Study subjects had their past medical history taken, clinical examination, and lesion size measured to record research indicators. Results: The study subjects had an average age of 20.7 ± 4.4 years old, all patients were female, accounting for 100%. The main cause of keloids is ear piercing, accounting for 97.7%. Surgical auricular keloids have an average size of 4 ± 3.5 cm2, the main location of keloids is in the helix accounting 44.1% and the earlobe accounting for 41.93%, the number of keloids is from 1 to 5. Conclusion: auricular keloids are mainly found in teenagers with an average age of 20.7 years old, 100% are female patients, 97.7% are caused by piercing. The location of keloids treated by surgery is in the earlobe and helix areas account for 44.1% and 41.93%, respectively; On average, there are 1.76 keloids/person, the average auricular keloid size is 4.07±3.58 cm, mainly in groups 3 and 4 according to Michael Tirgan's classification (1).
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