Outcome Assessment According to the Thickness and Direction of the Acellular Dermal Matrix after Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction

Table 1

Patient baseline demographics and concurrent treatments.

	Thick ADM	Thin ADM	value
No. of patients	23	20
Age (yr)			0.3538
Range	25-61	24-61
BMI (kg/m^2)			0.112
Range	17.69-50.54	17.58-27.01
Smoking (, %)	1 (4.35%)	3 (15%)	0.3235
Obesity (, %)	2 (8.7%)	0 (0%)	0.4906
Radiotherapy (, %)	6 (26.09%)	5 (25%)	0.9351
Preoperative	0	0
Postoperative	6 (26.09%)	5 (25%)	0.9351
Chemotherapy (, %)	10 (43.48%)	12 (60.0%)	0.2797
Preoperative	5 (21.74%)	1 (5%)	0.1918
Postoperative	10 (43.48%)	11 (55%)	0.4509
Pre+post	5 (21.71%)	0 (0%)	0.0511

ADM: acellular dermal matrix; SD: standard deviation; BMI: body mass index. Obesity was defined as  kg/m².