Editing Keloid (section)

==History==
[[File:Scourged back by McPherson & Oliver, 1863, retouched.jpg|thumb|Gordon or “Whipped Peter”, enslaved African American man displaying severe keloid scars]]
The word is derived from the Ancient Greek {{wikt-lang|grc|χηλή}}, {{transliteration|grc|chele}}, meaning "crab [[Pincer (biology)|pincers]]", and the suffix ''-oid'', meaning "like".  In the 19th century it was known as the "Keloid of Alibert" as opposed to "Addison’s keloid" ([[Morphea]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/94.html |title=Alibert's disease I |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Whonamedit?}}</ref>

The famous [[American Civil War]]-era photograph [[Gordon (slave)|"Whipped Peter"]] depicts an escaped former slave with extensive keloid scarring as a result of numerous brutal beatings from his former overseer.

Intralesional corticosteroid injections were introduced as a treatment in the mid-1960s as a method to attenuate scarring.<ref name="Gauglitz Korting Pavicic Ruzicka pp. 113–125">{{cite journal | vauthors = Gauglitz GG, Korting HC, Pavicic T, Ruzicka T, Jeschke MG | title = Hypertrophic scarring and keloids: pathomechanisms and current and emerging treatment strategies | journal = Molecular Medicine | volume = 17 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 113–125 | date = 2010-10-05 | pmid = 20927486 | pmc = 3022978 | doi = 10.2119/molmed.2009.00153 | publisher = Springer Science and Business Media LLC }}</ref>

Pressure therapy has been used for the prophylaxis and treatment of keloids since the 1970s.<ref name="Gauglitz Korting Pavicic Ruzicka pp. 113–125"/>

Topical silicone gel sheeting was introduced as a treatment in the early 1980s.<ref name="Gauglitz Korting Pavicic Ruzicka pp. 113–125"/>
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