Keloid it may ulcerate. Removing the scar is one treatment option; however, it may result in more severe consequences: the probability that the resulting surgery scar will also become a keloid is high, usually greater than 50%. Laser treatment has also been used with varying degrees of success. Keloids form within scar tissue. Collagen, used in wound repair, tends to overgrow in this area, sometimes producing a lump many times larger than that of the original scar. They can also range in color from pink to red. Although they usually occur at the site of an injury, keloids can also arise
Scar Tissue (novel) death, even once he has lost both his parents, concluding that he “know[s] that there is a life beyond this death, a time beyond this time. I know that at the very last moment…I will be face to face at last with a pure and heartless reality beyond anything a living soul can possibly imagine.” The themes of the book are: mental illness, Alzheimer's, aging, adolescence, survival, suffering, familial relationships, love, marital discord, father-son relationship, chronic illness, nursing. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1994) and Whitbread Awards. "Scar Tissue" has received substantial acclaim. It was described as: “powerful Alzheimer's novel