Keloids are benign dermal fibroproliferative tumors with no malignant potential.  The first description of abnormal scar formation in the form of Keloids was recorded in the Smith Papyrus regarding surgical techniques in Egypt around 1700 B.C.  The actual term Keloid, means “crab claw” and was first coined by Alibert in 1806 in an attempt to… Read more »