Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain
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scarring of skin and periarticular soft tissue) ( 23 , 24 ). Stiffness-related risk factors include external fixator use, open fractures, polytrauma, the need for fasciotomies, wound complications requiring increased immobilisation, extensor apparatus