. 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 5. Cross-Midline Flap Patient and Reconstruction Characteristics and Surgical Outcomes.

	Medial Branch N=99	Lateral Branch N=83	p-value
Body Mass Index, mean (mg/kg²)	26.5 ± 4.9	27.1 ± 6.6	0.97
Age, mean (years)	50.7 ± 9.0	49.7 ± 8.5	0.54
Any Medical Co-morbidity	37 (37.4%)	31 (37.3%)	1.0
Number of Perforators
• 1	26 (28.0%)	11 (14.5%)	0.017
• 2	41 (44.1%)	29 (38.2%)
• ≥3	26 (28.0%)	36 (47.4%)
Flap Type
• DIEP	69 (69.7%)	58 (69.9%)	0.98
• MS FTRAM	30 (30.3%)	25 (30.1%)
Complications
• Fat Necrosis	9 (9.1%)	12 (14.5%)	0.26
• Partial Flap Necrosis	4 (4.0%)	3 (3.6%)	1.0
• Fat Necrosis / Partial Flap Necrosis	13 (13.1%)	15 (18.1%)	0.36
• Infection	4 (4%)	2 (2.4%)	0.69
• Hematoma/Seroma	4 (4%)	7 (8.4%)	0.23
• Anastomotic Thrombosis	2 (2%)	0 (0%)	0.50
• Any Complication	21 (21.2%)	19 (22.9%)	0.79

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