Review Article
Postmastectomy Reconstruction in Male Breast Cancer
Table 3
Postoperative complications and long-term outcomes.
| Author, year | Complications | Patient satisfaction | Recurrence | Mortality | Follow-up duration |
| Al-Kalla and Komorowska-Timek, 2014 [25] | Partial necrosis of nipple | Satisfied | 0 | 0 | 6 months | Bamba et al., 2017 [26] | None | Satisfied | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Banys-Paluchowski et al., 2016 [1] | None | Not reported | 0 | 0 | 24 months | Danino et al., 1998 [27] | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | Di Benedetto et al., 1997 [28] | Not reported | Not reported | Not reported | 5 (45.5%) | 36 ± 22.1 months | Elshafiey et al., 2011 [29] | Not specifieda | Not reported | Not specifieda | Not specifieda | Not specifieda | Giunta et al., 2017 [30] | None | Satisfied | 0 | 0 | 18 months | Igun, 2000 [31] | None | Not reported | Local × 3 | 0 | 24 months | Nakao et al., 2002 [32] | None | Not reported | 0 | 0 | 24 months | Schaverien et al., 2013 [33] | Hypertrophic scarring | Satisfied | 0 | 0 | 10 months; 17 months | Spear and Bowen, 1997 [34] | None | Satisfied | 0 | 0 | 12 months |
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aNot specified for the 8 patients who underwent postmastectomy reconstruction.
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