Abdominal skin tensile strength in aesthetic and massive weight loss patients and its role in ventral hernia repair

Table 2 Biometric and Surgical Characteristics

	Aesthetic	Post-bariatric	p
No.	15	10
Abdominal circumference mean ± SD (cm)	83.8 ± 4.4	90.7 ± 14.0	0.166^*
Xiphoid-genital distance mean ± SD (cm)	36.6 ± 1.9	37.6 ± 4.3	0.536^*
Xiphoid-umbilical distance mean ± SD (cm)	18.4 ± 1.9	19.7 ± 3.4	0.261^*
Umbilical-genital distance median (IQ) (cm)	22 (18–22)	25 (23.25–27.25)	0.002^×
Dorsiflexion angle mean ± SD (degrees)	154.0 ± 7.4	162.2 ± 13.6	0.106^*
Craniocaudal size of resection ± SD (cm)	19.0 ± 2.7	21.8 ± 2.1	0.095^*
Latero-lateral size of resection ± SD (cm)	32.4 ± 3.6	50.5 ± 12.9	0.002^*

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