creation of an opening through a capsule, as with scar tissue around breast implants. (Closed capsulotomy is by external compression. Open capsulotomy, known as capsulectomy, is through an incision)
the process of breaking down the fibrous or scar tissue of a capsular contracture of a breast implant , closed capsulotomy the fibrous tissue is fractured by compressing the breast from the outside open capsulotomy the scar tissue that has enclosed the implant is partially removed through the original surgical incision.