ArticleAnnals of burns and fire disasters2023
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Thermotherapy for Scar Treatment.
Article in Annals of burns and fire disasters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Research progress on functionalized stem cell therapy strategies in wound healing.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
- High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound in Dermatology: A Review with Emphasis on Skin Cancer Management and Prevention.Cancers · 2025Review
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Abstract
The formation of pathological scars is a common medical and aesthetic problem worldwide. Surgical interventions, burns and injuries are the most common cause. Treating these scars is a challenge for any surgeon. The Clinic of Plastic-Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery with Thermal Trauma and Imaging Diagnostics applied an innovative method of thermotherapy with high-intensity, focused ultrasound in 20 patients with hypertrophic scars and keloids of different age, etiology and parameters. After a series of procedures, we got excellent results, reducing scar size, pigmentation, pain and itching. This type of thermotherapy is successfully applied to pathological scars. In this way, a change in scar density is achieved by converting hard collagen into a gelatin-like mass.As a subsequent procedure, moderately compressive massages are applied for faster resorption of the pathological collection. Our results show that high-intensity focused ultrasound thermotherapy of pathological scars is a non-invasive method of treatment with reasonably good results as regards both aesthetic and functional aspects.
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