Introduction
Materials and methods
Recruitment and participants
n = 34 | Mean (± SD) | Range |
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Age (at time of data collection) [in years] | 30 (± 5.8) | 21–45 |
Age (at time of first breast surgery) [in years] | 21 (± 5.6) | 16–42 |
BMI (at time of last breast surgery) [in kg/m2] | 23.6 (± 4.1) | 18–38 |
Length of postoperative period [in years] | 7 (± 3.3) | 0.9–12 |
Cup size | C | A–E |
Scar quality [given a scale from 1 (best) to 3 (worst)] | 1.4 (± 0.6) | 1–3 |
Number of surgery sessions | 2 (± 1.2) | 1–5 |
Study design
Three-dimensional volumetry
Patient-related-outcome measures: Breast Q™ questionnaire
Statistical analysis
Results
Correlations of objective parameters with long-term subjective satisfaction
n = 34 | Breast Q™ satisfaction with outcome | |
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rs | p value | |
Age (at time of data collection) [in years] | 0.260 | 0.137 |
Age (at time of first breast surgery) [in years] | 0.000 | 0.999 |
BMI (at time of last breast surgery) [in kg/m2] | − 0.179 | 0.310 |
Length of postoperative period [in years] | − 0.80 | 0.653 |
Cup size | − 0.136 | 0.443 |
Scar quality (on a scale from 1 (best) to 3 (worst)) | − 0.113 | 0.523 |
Number of surgery sessions | 0.234 | 0.183 |
n = 34 | Breast Q™ satisfaction with similarity of breasts | Breast Q™ satisfaction with outcome | ||
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rs | p value | rs | p value | |
MV SN–N | − 0.159 | 0.370 | − 0.300 | 0.084 |
MV IMF–N | 0.071 | 0.689 | − 0.119 | 0.504 |
MV UBP–N | − 0.194 | 0.272 | − 0.039 | 0.826 |
MV Xi-N | − 0.115 | 0.519 | − 0.186 | 0.293 |
MV LB–N | − 0.305 | 0.079 | − 0.153 | 0.387 |
MV AD | − 0.355* | 0.039 | − 0.405* | 0.017 |
MV IMF-length | − 0.168 | 0.343 | − 0.314 | 0.071 |
\(\Delta\) SN–N | − 0.269 | 0.123 | 0.098 | 0.580 |
\(\Delta\) IMF–N | − 0.137 | 0.441 | − 0.043 | 0.811 |
\(\Delta\) UBP–N | − 0.187 | 0.290 | − 0.054 | 0.761 |
\(\Delta\) Xi-N | − 0.287 | 0.100 | − 0.283 | 0.105 |
\(\Delta\) LB–N | 0.002 | 0.989 | − 0.176 | 0.320 |
\(\Delta\) AD | − 0.381* | 0.026 | − 0.242 | 0.168 |
\(\Delta\) IMF-length | 0.076 | 0.669 | − 0.138 | 0.435 |
\(\Delta\) 3D volume | − 0.389* | 0.023 | − 0.231 | 0.189 |
Satisfaction with similarity of breasts | 1 | 0 | 0.597** | < 0.01 |