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keloid

elevated mark on the skin caused by deposits of collagen during wound healing
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keloid

Summary

keloid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,196 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • keloid is a type of hypertrophic scar[2].
  • keloid is a type of reactive cutaneous fibrous lesion[3].
  • keloid's Commons category is recorded as Keloid[4].
  • keloid's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 701.4[5].
  • keloid's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C3145[6].
  • keloid's health specialty is recorded as dermatology[7].
  • keloid's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as triamcinolone[8].
  • keloid's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0010562[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include hypertrophic scar[2] and reactive cutaneous fibrous lesion[3].

Why It Matters

keloid ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,196 views/month).[1] keloid has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] keloid is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

dermatology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Drug Indications Extracted from FAERS. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1jhJLD
    Drug or therapy used for treatment → triamcinolone
    Aliases → —
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