BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to determine the prevalence of and the association between shoulder contracture and osseous deformity in a cohort of children with an obstetrical brachial plexus injury and to identify the risk factors for these complications. METHODS In a retrospective cohort study, all children with an obstetrical brachial plexus injury who had been born between Ja...

It has become increasingly recognized that the major functional deficits following brain damage are largely due to "negative' features such as weakness and loss of dexterity rather than spasticity. A variety of studies suggest that spasticity is a distinct problem and separate from the loss of dexterity, but that it may be implicated in the formation of muscle contracture and even in the recove...

BACKGROUND Polyurethane coating of breast implants has been shown to reduce capsular contracture in short-term follow-up studies. This 30-year study is the longest examination of the use of polyurethane-coated implants and their correlation with capsular contracture. METHODS This study evaluates the senior surgeon's (F.D.P.) experience with the use of polyurethane-coated implants in aesthetic...

A fifteen-year-old female patient presented with a severe bilateral groin contracture for the last 8 years. She had sustained burns at the age of seven years. Three attempts to release the contracture with split thickness skin grafts had been done without success. A pedicled anterior lateral thigh flap was raised and advanced into the defect after the contracture had been released. Postoperativ...

www.PRSJournal.com 379e Capsular contracture remains the most common complication of aesthetic breast augmentation despite advances in the understanding of the biological processes that appear to be involved. The role of biofilms in the pathogenesis of capsular contracture has been reported extensively; they are believed to play an important role.1,2 Recent advances in antibiotic irrigation3,4 ...

PURPOSE Severe neck contracture is a problem that must be resolved by priority. We consider the best contracture treatment to be the full-thickness skin graft. However, clinicians often encounter patients, especially extensive burn patients, who have insufficient donor sites for the full-thickness skin graft. We treated extensive burn patients with neck scar contractures with a split-thickness ...

PURPOSE To review the efficacy and safety of needle aponeurotomy for Dupuytren's contracture in Chinese patients. METHODS Seven men and one woman aged 50 to 80 (mean, 67) years underwent needle aponeurotomy for Dupuytren's contracture. Five were manual workers and the other 3 were retired. Their chief complaints were difficulty moving the fingers, clumsiness of the hand, and occasional pain i...

At the threshold concentration (1-10 pmol l(-1)), the neuropeptide hormones proctolin (PR) and the FLRFamide-like peptide (FLP) F(2) cause an increase in amplitude of electrically evoked contractions (each contraction is a brief tetanus) of lobster heart ostial muscle. At higher concentrations each peptide also induces an increase in tonus (contracture). The PR-induced contracture and augmentat...

Background. Groin and perineal burn contracture is a rare postburn sequel. Such postburn contractures causes distressing symptoms to the patients and in the management of these contractures, both functional and cosmetic appearance should be the primary concern. Aims. To study the outcome of surgical treatment (STSG and multiple Z-plasties) in postburn contractures of groin and perineum. Materia...