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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 30.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2015 Jun;135(6):1509–1517. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000001278

Table 2.

Failure rates

Non-XRT (n=1,486) TE-XRT (n=94) Implant-XRT (n=210) p p*
TE removal 54 (3.6) 8 (8.5) 2 (1.0) <0.01 <0.01
Implant removal 14 (1.0) 9 (9.6) 24 (11.4) <0.01 NS
Reconstructive failure 68 (4.6) 17 (18.1) 26 (12.4) <0.01 NS
*

between TE and implant radiation