Therapeutic reduction mammaplasty: does complications affect aesthetic outcome?

Methods: 27 women submitted to bilateral reduction mammaplasty and radiotherapy to treat primary breast cancer agreed to participate in this study. A frontal view picture was taken with a standard digital camera. In this group complications occurred in 14 (51,9%) patients – 10 delayed wound closure, 2 hematoma, 1 NAC partial necroses and 1 infection. We used the BCCT.core software to extract the features related to asymmetry measures, skin color differences and scar visibility. If a perfect positive linear relationship between complications and the software’s features was obtained, then the correlation coefficient is 1 (values between -1 and 1).