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Representative skin and soft tissue complications seen in the Expander specimens. Observed complications included expander port site extrusion (upper left), erythema and necrosis (upper right and bottom left), and alopecia/tissue thinning (bottom left and bottom right). Amifostine pre-treated specimens displayed significantly fewer complications than specimens receiving radiation alone (30% vs. 69%, respectively, p = 0.041).
