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While there have been injuries to the skin, either through surgery, piercing or other trauma, (such as a simple pimple or burning), the skin began to heal itself. Typically, the region will be flat scar. Sometimes the healing tissue thick or raised but confine themselves within the perimeter of the scar. This is a hypertrophic scar. These scars are usually reduced on their own within a year or more. This filamentous growth occurs when your body overproduces collagen in healing scar tissue and did not stop production when the need for improvements are met.

Significant signs of keloid is that they continue to grow, having claws or branch-like pattern and can have a range in color from pink to dark red or brown. They raised, shiny, curved and solid, and they can become uncomfortably large. The most common areas that will be affected by keloids are shoulders, back, chest and ears.

The children and parents do not tend to get keloids, but people with darker skin have a higher chance to develop them. Keloid is not a cancerous growth. Visits to the doctor can determine whether you have a keloid or something else, such as skin tags, cysts, warts, moles or allergic reaction (such as itching).