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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 May;129(5):1139–1150. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31824a2e38

Table 5.

Intermediate-term Outcome Comparison- Patients with Complication and without Complication

Function With
Complication
Without
Complication
p Value£
Grip strength, kg 9.5 ± 13.9 17.0 ± 13.0 0.38
Grip strength, % of contralateral 60.5 ± 37.6 98.5 ± 32.2 0.11
Key pinch, kg 4.0 ± 3.7 6.1 ± 5.1 0.56
Key pinch, % of contralateral 102.8 ± 15.9 86.9 ± 17.3 0.39
Jebsen-Taylor score 28.0 ± 13.8 27.3 ± 5.9 0.94
Active arc of motion 43° ± 21° 65° ± 24° 0.05
MHQ With
Complication
Without
Complication
p Value£
Overall 57 ± 20 71 ± 15 0.42
Function 68 ± 14 72 ± 14 0.66
ADL 65 ± 23 76 ± 16 0.42
Work 51 ± 28 70 ± 26 0.24
Pain 41 ± 26 15 ± 14 0.04
Aesthetics 41 ± 25 48 ± 37 0.83
Satisfaction 60 ± 23 72 ± 18 0.27
£

Comparison of functional outcomes and MHQ score were assessed with Mann-Whitney U test.