Abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness as a substitute for BMI in predicting complications in abdominally‐based autologous breast reconstruction
Dinis J, Junn A, Shah R, Allam O, Mehta S, Mozaffari MA, Avraham T, Alperovich M. Abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness as a substitute for BMI in predicting complications in abdominally‐based autologous breast reconstruction. Microsurgery 2021, 41: 341-347. PMID: 33720454, DOI: 10.1002/micr.30732.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAbdominal subcutaneous fat thicknessBody mass indexRecipient site complicationsBreast reconstructionFat necrosisMinor complicationsSite complicationsComputed tomographyMicrovascular free flap breast reconstructionMultivariable logistic regression analysisFree flap breast reconstructionSubcutaneous fat thicknessFlap fat necrosisL4-L5 spaceAutologous breast reconstructionFlap breast reconstructionPreoperative computed tomographyPostmastectomy breast reconstructionLogistic regression analysisMultivariable regression modelsAutologous tissue transferPatient selectionRetrospective reviewMass indexPreoperative imaging