Corticosteroids delay wound healing as they suppress the body’s inflammatory and immune responses. Any circumstance that delays healing increases the risk of infection and allows the excessive formation of granulation tissue. Other complications of wound healing may arise from the shape or location of a wound. Wounds over joints or in areas that experience high tensile forces tend to heal slowly and with excess scar formation. We call the formation of excessive scar tissue a scar. Conversely, wounds in areas that experience no or little mechanical force will tend to produce less scar tissue, and be weak, or there will be excess contracture of the scar tissue resulting in the shortening, or contracture, of the wounded tissue. is a grave complication of wound healing related to both the size of the wound and the location. Evisceration usually occurs with ventral midline wounds, such as those seen with caesarian or colic surgery. Evisceration occurs when the weight of the abdominal contents exceeds the strength of the sutures holding an incision together causing wound dehiscence and allowing the abdominal contents to protrude through the wound opening. In most cases evisceration is fatal as infection of the peritoneal cavity is almost inevitable.
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