• Any scar may become a Keloid, e.g. Burns, chemical burns, surgical wounds, vaccination marks, ear and nasal pricks, tuberculous sinuses, healed skin diseases and even insignificant pricks.
• There are some usual common sites where keloids are formed. Keloids are more likely to develop on the arms, back, ears, lower legs, mid-chest, and neck. They may form as a wound heals, or they may take several months or even years to develop, and they can continue to grow indefinitely.
• Some peculiar symptoms of keloids are:
  • They are raised from the surface; at some sites, e.g. on the Ear lobules, it may be pendulous.
  • They are Lumpy (nodular) or ridged and this is a very important feature in the symptoms of keloid.
  • They may be Flesh-colored, shiny pink or red in the early stages, and hyper-pigmented (darkened skin color) later on. This is leading feature of symptoms of keloids.
  • Keloids always extend beyond the limits of the original wound, sometimes by many centimeters.
  • Margins show "crab's claw" like projections into the adjacent skin is one of the leading features among symptoms of keloids.
  • Ulcers frequently develop on the surface and in the margins.
  • Itching is one of the constant and diagnostic symptoms of keloids.
  • Some Keloids become quite large and unsightly causing potential cosmetic problems.