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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 24.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Oct 13;117(5):916–924. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25505

Table 3.

Surgical Treatment of Primary Tumor

Characteristic CM
n=1011
(%)		 SSM
n=799
(%)		 P
Type of mastectomy <.0001
  Total 586 (58.0) 573 (71.7)
  Modified radical 425 (42.0) 226 (28.3)
SLN biopsy .001
  No 313 (31.0) 191 (23.9)
  Yes 689 (68.2) 608 (76.1)
BR (immediate or delayed) <.0001
  Yes 171 (16.9) 790 (98.9)
  No 840 (83.1) 9 (1.1)
BR type (% of BR)
  Tissue expander 77 (45.0) 324 (42.1)
  TRAM 68 (39.8) 360 (46.8)
  LD 10 (5.8) 56 (7.3)
  Others 16 (9.4) 29 (3.8)

CM indicates conventional mastectomy; SSM, skin-sparing mastectomy; SLN, sentinel lymph node; BR, breast reconstruction; TRAM, transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap; LD, latissimus dorsi flap.