0 a muscle or other tissue that has become permanently shorter causing a body part, especially a joint, to be the wrong shape, or the process in which this happens:
The other 14% of complications were considered minor in four patients: two infections and two contractures.
A pathologic capsular contracture, implant deflation, and/or rupture may require revisional surgery years following completion of reconstruction.
It is sometimes difficult to know whether a fixed posture is due to contracture.
There were contractures of both upper and lower limbs with swollen wrists and elbow joints.
Contributing to the dysphagia are delayed triggering of the swallow response and decreased pharyngeal contracture.
Most studies of implant reconstruction and radiation have reported relatively high rates of capsular contracture and implant loss.
While capsular contracture occurs to some extent around all implants; in some, the degree of contracture will increase in severity over time.
Once there, these cells proliferate and actively remodel this biological substrate, resulting in accelerated wound repair with less contracture.
