What should you know about butterfly keloid?

Keloid tissue forms when healing produces excess scar material. It may become firm, smooth, shiny, darker or lighter than nearby skin, and can grow beyond the edges of a cut, piercing, burn, or acne lesion. Itching, tenderness, tightness, and reduced comfort with clothing are common concerns. A butterfly-shaped pattern describes the outline or distribution; it does not identify a separate type of cancer. A clinician may compare the lump with other Skin Lumps and review how it developed.

Do not cut, scratch, or repeatedly traumatise the scar. Treatment depends on its size, location, symptoms, skin type, and previous response. Options may include Steroid Injection Into The Skin, pressure or silicone care, Fractional Laser Treatment, Pulsed Dye Laser Treatment, cryotherapy, or surgery. Removing a keloid alone can be followed by regrowth, so a specialist may combine approaches and arrange follow-up. If acne caused the original injury, controlling Acne can reduce new inflammation and future scar triggers.

Book an assessment for a scar that keeps enlarging, becomes painful or itchy, cracks, bleeds, or interferes with movement or sleep. Seek prompt review for sudden change, ulceration, pus, spreading redness, or fever. A changing lesion may need examination before any cosmetic treatment is chosen.

Does the shape and history fit a keloid? Which treatment is most suitable for its location and my skin tone? What will reduce regrowth risk, and how long should follow-up continue?