. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Dec;128(6):581e–589e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318230c122

Table 2. Reconstruction Characteristics.

	Medial Branch N=120	Lateral Branch N=108	P-value
Immediate Reconstruction	80 (66.7%)	68 (63%)	0.56
Number of Perforators Harvested
• 1	32 (28.3%)	17 (17.2%)	0.03
• 2	47 (41.6%)	36 (36.4%)
• ≥ 3	34 (30.1%)	46 (46.5%)
Flap Type
• DIEP	80 (66.7%)	77 (71.3%)	0.45
• MS FTRAM	40 (33.3%)	31 (28.7%)
Recipient Vessels
• Internal Mammary	114 (95%)	98 (90.7%)	0.21
• Thoracodorsal	6 (5%)	10 (9.3%)
Flap Design
• Hemiflap	12 (10%)	23 (21.3%)	0.012
• Cross-Midline Flap	99 (82.5%)	83 (76.9%)
• Total Flap	9 (7.5%)	2 (1.9%)

DIEP, Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap; MS FTRAM, Muscle-Sparing Free Transverse Rectus Abdominis Musculocutaneous Flap.