The Raised Line

Research Correspondent · Editorial staff

Leopold Ferreira

Writes the publication's comparison guides, weighing the options in keloid scar treatment side by side.

6 stories by Leopold Ferreira

A person with deeper skin tone resting a hand over a scar on their collarbone in soft calm daylightDispatch

Relieving the itch and pain of a keloid

Beyond how they look, keloids can itch and hurt, and those symptoms are treatable on their own.

· 6 min · Leopold Ferreira

A calm portrait of a person at home in morning light with a faint flattened collarbone scarField Notes

Living with keloids: setting realistic expectations

Control, not erasure, is the honest goal, and it is achievable.

· 5 min · Leopold Ferreira

A researcher reviewing tissue slides and scar-treatment data at a laboratory microscope stationAdvances

Advances in keloid treatment

Combination protocols and newer injectables are improving once-poor odds.

· 7 min · Leopold Ferreira

A person with deeper skin tone resting a hand on their shoulder scar in soft daylightField Notes

Who gets keloids, and why

Genetics, skin tone, and wound location all stack the odds.

· 5 min · Leopold Ferreira

Close-up of a person's earlobe showing a small firm keloid near an old piercing siteField Notes

Ear keloids after piercing: a common and treatable problem

Why earlobes keloid so often, and how they are managed.

· 5 min · Leopold Ferreira

A clinician using a fine syringe to inject a small raised scar on a patient's upper chestDispatch

Steroid injections: the first-line keloid treatment

Why corticosteroid injections remain the workhorse, and what a course involves.

· 6 min · Leopold Ferreira

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