Table 2

Menopausal status in patients submitted to aesthetic reduction mammaplasty (ARM), to mammaplasty contralateral to breast cancer (MCC), and patients with invasive mammary carcinoma (IMC)

Menopausal status

ARM

MCC

IMC

< 50 years

30 (88.2%)

7 (46.7%)

13 (38.2%)

≥ 50 years

4 (11.8%)

8 (53.3%)

21 (61.8%)

Total

34 (100%)

15 (100%)

34 (100%)

Tafuri et al. BMC Cell Biology 2006 7:29   doi:10.1186/1471-2121-7-29