Table 1.
| Conventional group (n = 21) | Stem cell group (n = 16) | P value | |
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| Patient characteristics | |||
| Males | 4 | 7 | 0.151a |
| Females | 17 | 9 | |
| Age (years) (mean ± SD) | 21 ± 5 | 30 ± 11 | 0.004b |
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| Number of sessions and volume injected | |||
| Number of fat graft sessions (mean ± SD) | 2 ± 1 | 1 ± 0 | <0.001c |
| Volume of fat transferred per session (ml) (mean ± SD) | 26 ± 14 | 29 ± 14 | 0.524b |
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| Assessment | |||
| Soft tissue thickness (mm) | |||
| (i) Preoperative (mean ± SD) | 5 ± 2 | 5 ± 4 | 0.602b |
| (ii) Postoperative 72 hours after the first fat graft session (mean ± SD) | 19 ± 8 | 24 ± 8 | 0.072b |
| (iii) Postoperative 6 months after the first fat graft session (mean ± SD) | 13 ± 6 | 23 ± 9 | <0.001b |
aChi-square test, bindependent sample t-test, and cMann–Whitney U test.