Table 3.

Clinical outcome and vascular related complications following nipple-sparing mastectomy

Ref.	Year	n	Nipple necrosis
			Total (n)	Partial (n)
Petit et al[109]	2009	1001	35	55
Nahabedian et al[17]	2006	11	0	1
Spear et al[108]	2011	49	3	3
Voltura et al[50]	2008	51	0	0
De Alcantara Filho et al[23]	2011	341	0	1
Wijayanayagam et al[71]	2008	64	3	10
Jensen et al[27]	2011	127	0	8
Paepke et al[103]	2009	109	1	23
Babiera et al[107]	2010	54	0	4
Munhoz et al[33]	2013	158	1	8