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Table 3 Percentage of satisfactory results by five individual criteria and method of operation at 2, 5, and 10 years of post-operative follow-up

From: Ten-year follow up of cosmetic outcome, overall survival, and disease-free survival in endoscope-assisted partial mastectomy with filling of dead space using absorbable mesh for stage ≤ IIA breast cancer: comparison with conventional conservative method

Follow-up

Criterion

CCM

EAPM

P valuea

2nd year

BRA

80.5% (99/123)

76.5% (101/132)

0.441

ND

52.0% (64/123)

58.3% (77/132)

0.312

Atrophy

34.2% (42/123)

54.5% (72/132)

0.001

Skin change*

37.4% (46/123)

46.2% (61/132)

0.154

Scar

33.3% (41/123)

56.1% (74/132)

< 0.001

5th year

BRA

81.2% (95/117)

75.0% (93/124)

0.246

ND

50.4% (59/117)

54.0% (67/124)

0.575

Atrophy

32.5% (38/117)

44.4% (55/124)

0.058

Skin change*

38.5% (45/117)

47.6% (59/124)

0.153

Scar

34.2% (40/117)

55.7% (69/124)

0.001

10th year

BRA

80.6% (87/108)

74.8% (86/115)

0.302

ND

50.0% (54/108)

52.2% (60/115)

0.746

Atrophy

30.6% (33/108)

44.4% (51/115)

0.034

Skin change*

40.7% (44/108)

47.0% (54/115)

0.350

Scar

30.6% (33/108)

55.7% (64/115)

< 0.001

  1. CCM conventional conservative method, EAPM endoscope-assisted partial mastectomy, BRA breast retraction assessment, ND nipple deviation
  2. Satisfactory results refer to score 2 for each scoring criterion described by Al-Ghazal et al. [10]
  3. aP value calculated by χ2 test
  4. *Edema, pigmentation, telangectasia