<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The present paper highlights the usefulness of 70% trichloroacetic acid in treating sebaceous hyperplasia in elderly patients. Esthetics are an important issue, and different therapeutic modalities can be used, such as systemic isotretinoin, surgical excision, electrocautery, cryosurgery, topical photodynamic therapy and laser, but all these methods are expansive and invasive procedures that may result in scars, which are more extensive than the original lesions.</p></abstract>

The present paper highlights the usefulness of 70% trichloroacetic acid in treating sebaceous hyperplasia in elderly patients. Esthetics are an important issue, and different therapeutic modalities can be used, such as systemic isotretinoin, surgical excision, electrocautery, cryosurgery, topical photodynamic therapy and laser, but all these methods are expansive and invasive procedures that may result in scars, which are more extensive than the original lesions.

70% Trichloroacetic Acid in the Treatment of Facial Sebaceous Hyperplasia

Nicolina Medical Center, Department of Dermatology

Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine

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The present paper highlights the usefulness of 70% trichloroacetic acid in treating sebaceous hyperplasia in elderly patients. Esthetics are an important...

70% Trichloroacetic Acid in the Treatment of Facial Sebaceous Hyperplasia

Published Online: Dec 18, 2018

Page range: 202 - 204

Received: May 31, 2018

Accepted: Jul 28, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2018-0024

Keywords
70% trichloroacetic acid, sebaceous hyperplasia, treatment

© 2018 Anca Chiriac et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

70% Trichloroacetic Acid in the Treatment of Facial Sebaceous Hyperplasia

Published Online: Dec 18, 2018

Page range: 202 - 204

Received: May 31, 2018

Accepted: Jul 28, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jim-2018-0024

Keywords70% trichloroacetic acid, sebaceous hyperplasia, treatment

© 2018 Anca Chiriac et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
70% trichloroacetic acid, sebaceous hyperplasia, treatment