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Contracture of a muscle occurs to some degree secondary to any '''muscle contusion that heals primarily by scar tissue'''.
 
Contracture of a muscle occurs to some degree secondary to any '''muscle contusion that heals primarily by scar tissue'''.
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Muscle contracture or fibrotic myopathy is characterised by the replacement of most or all of a muscle by fibrous scar tissue that contracts to an '''inelastic band'''.
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Muscle contracture or fibrotic myopathy is characterised by the replacement of most or all of a muscle by fibrous scar tissue that contracts to an '''inelastic band'''. Therefore normal motion of the related joints is decreased or lost.
 
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Therefore normal motion of the related joints is decreased or lost.
      
Muscles most commonly affected include: infraspinatus, quadriceps, gracilis and semitendinosus.
 
Muscles most commonly affected include: infraspinatus, quadriceps, gracilis and semitendinosus.
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Slatter, D. (2002) '''Textbook of Small Animal Surgery''' ''Elsevier Health Sciences''
 
Slatter, D. (2002) '''Textbook of Small Animal Surgery''' ''Elsevier Health Sciences''
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[[Category:Muscles - Pathology]]
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[[Category:Musculoskeletal Diseases - Dog]]
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