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Implant Capsular Contracture

"Implant Capsular Contracture" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The shrinkage of the foreign body encapsulation scar tissue that forms around artificial implants imbedded in body tissues.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Implant Capsular Contracture" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Implant Capsular Contracture" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2012 and 2014
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