A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Giant Keloid Removal

My friend Emilio Gonzalez of Mithos Tattoo in Caracas, Venezuela sends in this just massive keloid removal he did. I’m quite certain that person is very happy they walked into his studio!

Anyway, I’m not really posting right now, I just wanted to quickly make sure that the main banner works (it will automatically change now on a daily basis). If you didn’t see, I also added a “most commented on” section for those that want to quickly jump to ModBlog‘s most debated entries. More tomorrow morning!

Comments

90 responses to “Giant Keloid Removal”

  1. Piercing Pete Avatar
    Piercing Pete

    Shannon it’s the morning over here and I havent had Breakfast yet.

    Dont think I will now.

    That is one giant keloid and a great job done in removing it.

    Do we know what caused it?

  2. Piercing Pete Avatar
    Piercing Pete

    Shannon it’s the morning over here and I havent had Breakfast yet.

    Dont think I will now.

    That is one giant keloid and a great job done in removing it.

    Do we know what caused it?

  3. con Avatar
    con

    wow big un.

  4. con Avatar
    con

    wow big un.

  5. trailerparkray Avatar

    does the removal of such a keliod run the risk of forming another big keliod?

  6. trailerparkray Avatar

    does the removal of such a keliod run the risk of forming another big keliod?

  7. tinaxo Avatar

    Far out!! Thats insane, how does someone let it get to that point without seeking proper attention to it!!?
    Crasy Kids these days!

  8. tinaxo Avatar

    Far out!! Thats insane, how does someone let it get to that point without seeking proper attention to it!!?
    Crasy Kids these days!

  9. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    Ray – Yeah, there is some risk of that.

  10. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    Ray – Yeah, there is some risk of that.

  11. Anonymous Rex Avatar
    Anonymous Rex

    Considering the size of it, I wonder if some people would have assumed it to be some sort of tumor.

  12. Anonymous Rex Avatar
    Anonymous Rex

    Considering the size of it, I wonder if some people would have assumed it to be some sort of tumor.

  13. BrutalBeauty Avatar
    BrutalBeauty

    Thats intense. Looks so painful!!!!! I hope it heals better. Should post some pictures in a few months to show how it heals.

  14. BrutalBeauty Avatar
    BrutalBeauty

    Thats intense. Looks so painful!!!!! I hope it heals better. Should post some pictures in a few months to show how it heals.

  15. z is for xylophone Avatar
    z is for xylophone

    do you think it’s maybe from an industrial? it kinda looks like there are two main lobes to it. but happy keloid removal for that venezuelan!

  16. z is for xylophone Avatar
    z is for xylophone

    do you think it’s maybe from an industrial? it kinda looks like there are two main lobes to it. but happy keloid removal for that venezuelan!

  17. Etoile Avatar

    Holy crap, nice job by Emilio. Judging by the color of the keloid, I would assume there are blood vessels running through it, but I wasn’t able to find documentation of this. Does anybody know if keloids have a blood supply? If so, that would make their removal much more difficult – like those 200-pound tumors you see on TV. It looks like corticosteroid injection will help keep a duplicate keloid from forming…I hope she’s gotten that.

  18. Etoile Avatar

    Holy crap, nice job by Emilio. Judging by the color of the keloid, I would assume there are blood vessels running through it, but I wasn’t able to find documentation of this. Does anybody know if keloids have a blood supply? If so, that would make their removal much more difficult – like those 200-pound tumors you see on TV. It looks like corticosteroid injection will help keep a duplicate keloid from forming…I hope she’s gotten that.

  19. kratos Avatar
    kratos

    holy. crap. fuck. that is amazing. good luck to her with the healing process.

    wonder if she kept the keloid in a jar… I totally would 😀

  20. kratos Avatar
    kratos

    holy. crap. fuck. that is amazing. good luck to her with the healing process.

    wonder if she kept the keloid in a jar… I totally would 😀

  21. Noadi Avatar

    Wow, I’m not sure how you manage to get one to that point without having it looked at long before. The only thing I wonder about is if that was truly a keloid and wasn’t possibly also cancerous. If the latter was the case hopefully he got all of it and it doesn’t come back or hasn’t spread. I don’t know what health care in Venezuela is like, there may not have been the option of having a doctor remove it, but if anyone else here has a keloid like that and you have access to doctors care I’d go that route just to get it biopsied to make 100% certain it was a keloid and not somethign far more serious. Otherwise he did a beautiful job removing that, looks like if another doesn’t form that the ear will look perfectly normal after if heals.

  22. Noadi Avatar

    Wow, I’m not sure how you manage to get one to that point without having it looked at long before. The only thing I wonder about is if that was truly a keloid and wasn’t possibly also cancerous. If the latter was the case hopefully he got all of it and it doesn’t come back or hasn’t spread. I don’t know what health care in Venezuela is like, there may not have been the option of having a doctor remove it, but if anyone else here has a keloid like that and you have access to doctors care I’d go that route just to get it biopsied to make 100% certain it was a keloid and not somethign far more serious. Otherwise he did a beautiful job removing that, looks like if another doesn’t form that the ear will look perfectly normal after if heals.

  23. kawaface Avatar

    wooowwww. i too wonder how she let it get so huge. damndamndamn…is it heavy, at that point?

  24. kawaface Avatar

    wooowwww. i too wonder how she let it get so huge. damndamndamn…is it heavy, at that point?

  25. moddoctor Avatar
    moddoctor

    First, it looks like it could just be a keloid to me.

    Second, I’ve watched Emilio’s work for a while and he has surgical skills in excess of many of my collegues. This is yet another example of his incredible skill.

  26. moddoctor Avatar
    moddoctor

    First, it looks like it could just be a keloid to me.

    Second, I’ve watched Emilio’s work for a while and he has surgical skills in excess of many of my collegues. This is yet another example of his incredible skill.

  27. Lucas Fury Avatar

    wow.

    ..and on a totally different note, checking out the ‘most commented on entries’ just now completely reminded me why i hate ignorant fucking assholes as much as i do.

  28. Lucas Fury Avatar

    wow.

    ..and on a totally different note, checking out the ‘most commented on entries’ just now completely reminded me why i hate ignorant fucking assholes as much as i do.

  29. Jason Avatar
    Jason

    I like the daily banner idea. Is there any way to link to the picture used in the banner, so if something up there catches our eye, we can jump to the related entry?

  30. Jason Avatar
    Jason

    I like the daily banner idea. Is there any way to link to the picture used in the banner, so if something up there catches our eye, we can jump to the related entry?

  31. Raven Avatar

    Lucas – AGREED! I just saw the wolverine claws page and I can’t believe how many idiots have posted retarded comments…

    Anyways… that’s a massive keloid! I wonder if her hair ever got caught around it..

  32. Raven Avatar

    Lucas – AGREED! I just saw the wolverine claws page and I can’t believe how many idiots have posted retarded comments…

    Anyways… that’s a massive keloid! I wonder if her hair ever got caught around it..

  33. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    Jason — they’re modblog.bmezine.com/content/covers/modblog01 through 31.jpg

    I’ll probably change them from time to time as well…

  34. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    Jason — they’re modblog.bmezine.com/content/covers/modblog01 through 31.jpg

    I’ll probably change them from time to time as well…

  35. trinityva Avatar
    trinityva

    Agreed with Lucas as well. Wow, people lack brainpower. EEE.

  36. trinityva Avatar
    trinityva

    Agreed with Lucas as well. Wow, people lack brainpower. EEE.

  37. trailerparkray Avatar

    i cann’t belive out of all of the posts on this blog that the wolverien claws attracted the most comments, and the biggest flame war i’ve seen on here, next to the hitler tattoo, but at least that had some level of civil debate to it. i guess it’s becuase it was linked from another site.

  38. trailerparkray Avatar

    i cann’t belive out of all of the posts on this blog that the wolverien claws attracted the most comments, and the biggest flame war i’ve seen on here, next to the hitler tattoo, but at least that had some level of civil debate to it. i guess it’s becuase it was linked from another site.

  39. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    It’s very, very rare for comments from inside BME, IAM, and regular ModBlog readers to get nasty…. It’s almost exclusively casual visitors directed here.

    In some ways it’s good to be reminded of it I think, because I know for me it’s very easy to become convinced that the whole world thinks “like us”, because we experience this community inside a fairly safe bubble most of the time.

  40. Shannon Larratt Avatar

    It’s very, very rare for comments from inside BME, IAM, and regular ModBlog readers to get nasty…. It’s almost exclusively casual visitors directed here.

    In some ways it’s good to be reminded of it I think, because I know for me it’s very easy to become convinced that the whole world thinks “like us”, because we experience this community inside a fairly safe bubble most of the time.

  41. emilio gonzalez Avatar

    the keloid never gonna grow up becauseI use a elecocauterisador

  42. emilio gonzalez Avatar

    the keloid never gonna grow up becauseI use a elecocauterisador

  43. Sunday Avatar

    the Wolverine post reminded me of the brass knuckles implant that got linked to from Fark. between the comments here and the ones on Fark’s own page, there had to have been over a thousand.

  44. Sunday Avatar

    the Wolverine post reminded me of the brass knuckles implant that got linked to from Fark. between the comments here and the ones on Fark’s own page, there had to have been over a thousand.

  45. bobbie Avatar
    bobbie

    gotta say, shes gonna be left with a wicked scar when that heals.

  46. bobbie Avatar
    bobbie

    gotta say, shes gonna be left with a wicked scar when that heals.

  47. Lucas Fury Avatar

    so, emilio, you cauderized the wound before you stitched it? ..and that’s supposed to prevent the keloid from reforming? it seems like that would do the exact opposite..

  48. Lucas Fury Avatar

    so, emilio, you cauderized the wound before you stitched it? ..and that’s supposed to prevent the keloid from reforming? it seems like that would do the exact opposite..

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